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

[Antoine Pitrou]

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

> Jean-Paul Calderone <invalid at example.invalid> added the comment:
> 
> > Phillip, your argument about interfacing with code written in C
> doesn't work for built-in immutable types like str.
> 
> Sure it does.  Definitely-str is easier to handle in C than
> maybe-str-subclass.

Well, PyString_AsString() works on subclasses as well as on str itself.
I'm not sure what operations you're thinking about here.

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