[Python-Dev] Need a way to test for 8-bit-or-unicode-string (original) (raw)

Fred L. Drake, Jr. fdrake@acm.org
Fri, 5 Oct 2001 23:44:48 -0400

Guido van Rossum writes:

Followup question: should I also implement issubclass(X, (A, B, C...))?

It's consistent to do so, but it's more work (issubclass is a bit murkier due to the "abstract subclass" support), and I'm not sure that it has the same benefits...

They're similar, but they're usage is not. Let's keep issubclass() simple until we know there's a reason to change it.

-Fred

-- Fred L. Drake, Jr. PythonLabs at Zope Corporation