[Zope-Coders] unicode question

[Barry A. Warsaw]

>>>>> "GvR" == Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> writes:

    GvR> (I'm still thinking about whether to provide a common base
    GvR> for str and unicode; the more I see this kind of examples,
    GvR> the more I think there should be one.  But what to call it?
    GvR> abstractstring?  String?  string?)

Do you think that the string types will eventually be unified, or will
there always be two (or more?!) distinct concrete string types?

-Barry