I've run into the following behavior with qpy:

 >>> h8("%s") % h8("")
u''
 >>> h8("%s") % h8.quote("")
u'<hello>'
 >>> h8("%s") % h8.quote("").replace("h", "a")
u'&lt;aello&gt;'
 >>> h8("%s") % h8(h8.quote("").replace(h8("h"), h8("a")))
u'<aello>'
 >>>

What I'm running into appears to be that h8.replace returns a unicode
instance instead of an h8 instance.

Would it be more appropriate if all of the h8 inherited methods
returned h8 instances instead? Or am I missing something....

Dave