[issue10935] wsgiref.handlers.BaseHandler and subclasses of str

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr> added the comment:

> OK.  So he is saying that when the spec says "an object of type str" he 
> means 'type(x) is str' as opposed to 'isinstance(x, str)'.  I would
> naively have expected the latter, as other people clearly do as well.

+1 with RDM here.

> Doesn't matter how unpythonic it is: the spec calls for exact types

Can you clarify why it does?

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