A RetroSearch Logo

Home - News ( United States | United Kingdom | Italy | Germany ) - Football scores

Search Query:

Showing content from https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2002-May/024406.html below:

[Python-Dev] to string or not to string...

[Python-Dev] to string or not to string... [Python-Dev] to string or not to string...Tim Peters tim.one@comcast.net
Fri, 24 May 2002 21:25:26 -0400
>> We could rename string to basestring?

> Or (more seriously than my last suggestion): strings

Less than half joking, but the amount by which it's less may be negative:
the new "string" is an abstract base class, which is pretty much the same as
an interface.  So call it istring now, and people will be subtly conditioned
to accept interfaces when they're introduced for real <0.5+-epsilon wink>.





RetroSearch is an open source project built by @garambo | Open a GitHub Issue

Search and Browse the WWW like it's 1997 | Search results from DuckDuckGo

HTML: 3.2 | Encoding: UTF-8 | Version: 0.7.4