On Tuesday, October 28, 2003, at 02:16 PM, Neil Schemenauer wrote:

> I would like to make the htmltext class a subclass of StringType.
> That would remove the need to call str() in html templates for
> functions that require a string.  Credit Guido with the idea.
>
> Subclassing builtin types is only supported in Python >= 2.2.  I'm
> wondering how many people would be affected if we dropped support
> for Python 2.1?
>
>   Neil

I am +1 as well.  We are already subclassing from builtin classes.

--Bill Noon