- A new type object, 'string', is added. This is a common base type
for 'str' and 'unicode', and can be used instead of
types.StringTypes, e.g. to test whether something is "a string":
isinstance(x, string) is True for Unicode and 8-bit strings. This
is an abstract base class and cannot be instantiated directly.
diff --git a/Objects/stringobject.c b/Objects/stringobject.c
index 668668c..27b3af4 100644
--- a/Objects/stringobject.c
+++ b/Objects/stringobject.c
@@ -2855,6 +2855,60 @@
return pnew;
}
+static PyObject *
+basestring_new(PyTypeObject *type, PyObject *args, PyObject *kwds)
+{
+ PyErr_SetString(PyExc_TypeError,
+ "The string type cannot be instantiated");
+ return NULL;
+}
+
+static char basestring_doc[] =
+"Type string cannot be instantiated; it is the base for str and unicode.";
+
+PyTypeObject PyBaseString_Type = {
+ PyObject_HEAD_INIT(&PyType_Type)
+ 0,
+ "string",
+ 0,
+ 0,
+ 0, /* tp_dealloc */
+ 0, /* tp_print */
+ 0, /* tp_getattr */
+ 0, /* tp_setattr */
+ 0, /* tp_compare */
+ 0, /* tp_repr */
+ 0, /* tp_as_number */
+ 0, /* tp_as_sequence */
+ 0, /* tp_as_mapping */
+ 0, /* tp_hash */
+ 0, /* tp_call */
+ 0, /* tp_str */
+ 0, /* tp_getattro */
+ 0, /* tp_setattro */
+ 0, /* tp_as_buffer */
+ Py_TPFLAGS_DEFAULT | Py_TPFLAGS_BASETYPE, /* tp_flags */
+ basestring_doc, /* tp_doc */
+ 0, /* tp_traverse */
+ 0, /* tp_clear */
+ 0, /* tp_richcompare */
+ 0, /* tp_weaklistoffset */
+ 0, /* tp_iter */
+ 0, /* tp_iternext */
+ 0, /* tp_methods */
+ 0, /* tp_members */
+ 0, /* tp_getset */
+ &PyBaseObject_Type, /* tp_base */
+ 0, /* tp_dict */
+ 0, /* tp_descr_get */
+ 0, /* tp_descr_set */
+ 0, /* tp_dictoffset */
+ 0, /* tp_init */
+ 0, /* tp_alloc */
+ basestring_new, /* tp_new */
+ 0, /* tp_free */
+};
+
static char string_doc[] =
"str(object) -> string\n\
\n\
@@ -2893,7 +2947,7 @@
string_methods, /* tp_methods */
0, /* tp_members */
0, /* tp_getset */
- 0, /* tp_base */
+ &PyBaseString_Type, /* tp_base */
0, /* tp_dict */
0, /* tp_descr_get */
0, /* tp_descr_set */