[Python-Dev] thoughts on the bytes/string discussion

[Brett Cannon]

On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 10:38, Bill Janssen <janssen at parc.com> wrote:
[SNIP]
> The language moratorium kind of makes this all theoretical, but building
> a String ABC still would be a good start, and presumably isn't forbidden
> by the moratorium.

Because a new ABC would go into the stdlib (I assume in collections or
string) the moratorium does not apply.