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.