[Python-Dev] Re: Alternative implementation of string interning

[Barry A. Warsaw]

>>>>> "KY" == Ka-Ping Yee <ping@zesty.ca> writes:

    KY> It appears that what you are proposing is what interned string
    KY> comparison already does (since == checks for pointer equality
    KY> first).  So, the only observable effect of the change would be
    KY> to break all code that tests for type(s) == str.

Shouldn't those already be written as isinstance(s, str)?  Maybe with
StringType for str?

Even so, I'm not much in favor of adding more string types to the
language.  I think we should be /collapsing/ string types not
proliferating them (i.e. removing the distinction between str and
unicode -- Jython seems to get by just fine that way).

-Barry