[Python-Dev] to string or not to string...

[Tim Peters]

>> We could rename string to basestring?

> Or (more seriously than my last suggestion): strings

Less than half joking, but the amount by which it's less may be negative:
the new "string" is an abstract base class, which is pretty much the same as
an interface.  So call it istring now, and people will be subtly conditioned
to accept interfaces when they're introduced for real <0.5+-epsilon wink>.