Message 398565 - Python tracker

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The only way I can see here is to go with a similar strategy as Serhiy proposes, which seems that it has a non trivial complication (and a new type, which I am not very fond of) but is a bit cleaner than changing the semantics of the type, which affects much more than the storage.