On May 10, 2006, at 5:15 PM, Mike Orr wrote:

> Darn it, why didn't htmltext subclass str!!!  Peeking into the
> htmltext implementation, it stores the actual value in an attribute
> ...s:

Have you looked at QPY?
It is essentially PTL, except that the htmltext class,
called "h8" in QPY, *is* a subclass of unicode.
That's the main reason QPY exists.