[Zope-Coders] unicode question

[Martijn Faassen]

Guido van Rossum wrote:
> (I'm still thinking about whether to provide a common base for str and
> unicode; the more I see this kind of examples, the more I think there
> should be one.  But what to call it?  abstractstring?  String?  string?)

Stringish, StringLike? More of an interface-style use of the base than
implementation inheritance there in the naming, which I'm not sure
you'd want. The analogy would be with sequence and number, but they don't
have a type in types.py either, so I don't know.

Regards,

Martijn