Phillip J. Eby <p...@telecommunity.com> added the comment:

PyString_AsString() only "works on subclasses" if their internal representation 
is the same as type str.  So we can't say "subclass of str" without *also* 
specifying that the subclass store its contents in exactly the same way as an 
object of type str...  which means all we've really done is to make the 
specification longer and more complicated.

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