[Python-Dev] Iterable String Redux (aka String ABC)
Greg Ewing
greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Sun Jun 1 12:54:15 CEST 2008
Armin Ronacher wrote:
> basestring is not subclassable for example. Also it requires subclassing
> which ABCs do not.
The use case that was cited was recognising subclasses of
UserString, and that's what I was responding to. If
basestring were made subclassable and UserString inherited
from it, that use case would be covered.
Recognising string-like objects *without* requiring
subclassing is a hopeless morass to get into, in my
opinion. You'll just have endless arguments about which
of the zillion methods of str should be in the blessed
set which confers string-ness.
I also think that the ABC idea in general suffers from
that problem, to one degree or another depending on
the class involved. Strings are just an extreme case.
--
Greg
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