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

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Thu May 29 02:40:43 CEST 2008


Bill Janssen wrote:

Look, even if there were no additional methods, it's worth adding the base class, just to differentiate the class from the Sequence, as a marker, so that those of us who want to ask "isinstance(o, String)" can do so.

Doesn't isinstance(x, basestring) already cover that?

-- Greg



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