[Zope-Coders] unicode question

[Casey Duncan]

On Friday 05 October 2001 10:06 am, you wrote:
> > Or even this:
> >
> >    if type(names) in (types.StringType, types.UnicodeType):
> >        names=(names,)
>
> No!
>
> > Although, I'm sure using isinstance is better than comparing types.
>
> Indeed.  Using isinstance is VERY important with an eye on migrating
> to new-style types/classes in Python 2.2: the argument could be a
> subclass of types.StringType, and then tests using "type(x) is T" or
> "type(x) in T" will fail.  The isinstance(x, T) test will succeed
> though.
>
> (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?)
>
> --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)

That's a good point. A common base would sure make this more intuitive. How's 
about:

stringbase? stringobject? or stringydingy? 8^)

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