[Zope-Coders] unicode question

[Guido van Rossum]

> StringType
> |
> |------UnicodeType
> |
> |------AsciiType
> 
> would this work or am I missing something big (which I fear I am...)

The unicode type can't be a subtype of the str type, nor vice versa,
because their structure layout is different.  C methods defined for
the base type should be safe for instances of subtypes.

(These are now their official names -- the types module merely defines
historic aliases.)

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)