Patch# 1258 by Christian Heimes: kill basestring.

I like this because it makes the code shorter! :-)

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/distutils/dist.py b/Lib/distutils/dist.py
index 631df48..ade2ab7 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/dist.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/dist.py
@@ -580,13 +580,13 @@ Common commands: (see '--help-commands' for more)
 
         keywords = self.metadata.keywords
         if keywords is not None:
-            if isinstance(keywords, basestring):
+            if isinstance(keywords, str):
                 keywordlist = keywords.split(',')
                 self.metadata.keywords = [x.strip() for x in keywordlist]
 
         platforms = self.metadata.platforms
         if platforms is not None:
-            if isinstance(platforms, basestring):
+            if isinstance(platforms, str):
                 platformlist = platforms.split(',')
                 self.metadata.platforms = [x.strip() for x in platformlist]
 
@@ -874,7 +874,7 @@ Common commands: (see '--help-commands' for more)
                 neg_opt = {}
 
             try:
-                is_string = isinstance(value, basestring)
+                is_string = isinstance(value, str)
                 if option in neg_opt and is_string:
                     setattr(command_obj, neg_opt[option], not strtobool(value))
                 elif option in bool_opts and is_string: