[Python-3000] PEP 3137 plan of attack

[Guido van Rossum]

On 10/15/07, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> There's one thing that I forgot to add to PEP 3137. It's the removal
> of the basestring type. I think this is a reasonable thing to do.
> Christian Heimes has a patch that does this cleanly. Anyone objecting,
> please speak up now!

And, quite separately, we will need a common base type for bytes and
buffer. I think that should be an ABC in the collections module
though, which simply registers bytes and buffer. Any suggestions for a
name?

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