[Python-Dev] thoughts on the bytes/string discussion

[Brett Cannon]

On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 12:07, Michael Foord <fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk> wrote:
> On 24/06/2010 19:11, Brett Cannon wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 10:38, Bill Janssen<janssen at parc.com>  wrote:
>> [SNIP]
>>
>>>
>>> The language moratorium kind of makes this all theoretical, but building
>>> a String ABC still would be a good start, and presumably isn't forbidden
>>> by the moratorium.
>>>
>>
>> Because a new ABC would go into the stdlib (I assume in collections or
>> string) the moratorium does not apply.
>>
>
> Although it would require changes for builtin types like file to work with a
> new string ABC, right?

Only if they wanted to rely on some concrete implementation of a
method contained within the ABC. Otherwise that's what abc.register
exists for.