Alex Martelli wrote:
> > As you already suspected, I think a PEP is needed. The intent of
>
> I'll be happy to write it, if it stands any chance.
>
> > basestring was to *only* be used as the base class for *built-in*
> > string types. Clearly what you're proposing is different (Decimal is
> > not built-in -- not yet anyway).
>
> I can't find a PEP describing this restriction of basestring
that's how it's documented, at least:
http://effbot.org/lib/builtin.basestring
> Implementing different kinds of numbers is more likely than
> implementing different kinds of strings, of course.
indeed. implementing a new string type is not a trivial task in today's
CPython.
</F>
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