[Python-Dev] Removing types module from stdlib

[Kevin Jacobs]

On Fri, 31 May 2002, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> str and unicode have special status and it shouldn't be easy to create
> something else (not deriving from either) that also gets this special
> status.  (You can still do it in C of course.)

I use this little toy on occasion:

class istr(str):
  __slots__ = ()
  def __hash__(self):
    return hash(self.lower())
  def __eq__(self, other):
    return self.lower() == other.lower()
  def __ne__(self, other):
    return self.lower() != other.lower()
  def __le__(self, other):
    return self.lower() <= other.lower()
  def __ge__(self, other):
    return self.lower() >= other.lower()
  def __lt__(self, other):
    return self.lower() < other.lower()
  def __gt__(self, other):
    return self.lower() > other.lower()

Are you saying that you want to outlaw it?

-Kevin

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