Wishlist: string attributes

[Greg Ewing (using news.cis.dfn.de)]

Raymond Hettinger wrote:
> The character strings could be provided if needed.

Perhaps, instead of real strings, they could
be objects whose "in" operator uses an efficient
test such as isalpha etc. where appropriate,
and also behave like a sequence of chars.

-- 
Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept,
University of Canterbury,	
Christchurch, New Zealand
http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg