[Python-Dev] Iterable String Redux (aka String ABC)

[Georg Brandl]

Greg Ewing schrieb:
> Georg Brandl wrote:
>> Greg Ewing schrieb:
>  >
>>> Doesn't isinstance(x, basestring) already cover that?
>> 
>> That doesn't cover UserString, for example.
> 
> A better solution to that might be to have UserString
> inherit from basestring.

But with that argument you could throw out the whole ABC machinery,
just let all lists inherit from list, all dicts from dict, etc.

Georg

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