[Python-ideas] Keyword/Symbol literals

[Alexander Belopolsky]

Sorry, I misread what you wrote.  I thought you suggested that an interned
string can get "uninterned" somehow.  Yes, sys.intern(x) will change x's
status, but as you suggested, it can change x.__class__ as well.  However,
with a Symbol class in-place, I don't think there will be a need for such
transitions.  Even now, I don't see sys.intern() in user code too often.

On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 9:08 PM, Alexander Belopolsky <
alexander.belopolsky at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 5:18 PM, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz>
> wrote:
>
>> Alexander Belopolsky wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Why can't we make interned strings a subclass of strings like bool is a
>>> subclass of int?
>>>
>>
>> Because a string can change from being non-interned to
>> being interned at some point in its life.
>
>
> I did not know that.  Can you show the code that would cause such a change?
>
>
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