"Nicolas Grilly" <nicolas.grilly@...475...> writes:
[about is_string_like]
But in this function, I don't like the idea to try an operation on a
string, and wait for an exception in order to know if we really have a
string or not. It's not very efficient, nor very beautiful.
I wouldn't worry about efficiency until there is a demonstrable need
to speed something up.
I guess initial developer did that to keep compatibility with old
Python versions.
I've always thought that is_string_like is there to allow
compatibility with _future_ code where someone is using a new kind of
string-like object that works just like a string but for which
isinstance(x, (str, unicode)) is false.
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Jouni