[Python-3000] Making strings non-iterable

[Greg Ewing]

Ian Bicking wrote:

> So I don't think
> there's any parallel to ML or other languages with character types.

If you're after parallels, there's BASIC, which also
didn't have a character type, and didn't try to pretend
that strings were arrays of anything. The equivalent
of s[i] would be mid$(s, i, 1), which is more akin to
a slice than an indexing operation.

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Greg