On Sun, Feb 23, 2020 at 11:26 AM Steve Jorgensen <stevej@stevej.name> wrote:
From reading many of the suggestions in this list (including some of my own, of course) there seem to be a lot of us in the Python coder community who find the current behavior of strings being iterable collections of single-character strings to be somewhat problematic. At the same time, trying to change that would obviously have vast consequences, so not something that can simply be changed, even with at a major version boundary.
I propose that we start by making a small, safe step in the right direction so we can maybe reach the bigger goal in a far future release (e.g. 5.x or 6.x).
This is assuming that (a) the current behaviour is actually wrong, and (b) it should eventually be changed. Do any of the core devs agree with those two assertions? ChrisA