str.__getitem__ quirks

Since Python doesn't have a char type, an element of str is always str:

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This is an infinite type and you can't construct in a strictly typed language (and why would you?) because it's unclear how to construct the first instance (thing-in-itself?). For example, in Haskell:

Prelude> str = str str

<interactive>:1:7: error:
    • Occurs check: cannot construct the infinite type: t1 ~ t -> t1