Checkpoint. Manipulated things so that string literals are always

unicode, and a few other compensating changes, e.g. str <- unicode,
chr <- unichr, and repr() of a unicode string no longer starts
with 'u'.  Lots of unit tests are broken, but some basic things
work, in particular distutils works so the extensions can be built,
and test_builtin.py works.

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/distutils/dist.py b/Lib/distutils/dist.py
index 7ed1b5c..89390fb 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/dist.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/dist.py
@@ -598,13 +598,13 @@ Common commands: (see '--help-commands' for more)
 
         keywords = self.metadata.keywords
         if keywords is not None:
-            if type(keywords) is StringType:
+            if isinstance(keywords, basestring):
                 keywordlist = keywords.split(',')
                 self.metadata.keywords = [x.strip() for x in keywordlist]
 
         platforms = self.metadata.platforms
         if platforms is not None:
-            if type(platforms) is StringType:
+            if isinstance(platforms, basestring):
                 platformlist = platforms.split(',')
                 self.metadata.platforms = [x.strip() for x in platformlist]
 
@@ -906,7 +906,7 @@ Common commands: (see '--help-commands' for more)
                 neg_opt = {}
 
             try:
-                is_string = type(value) is StringType
+                is_string = isinstance(value, basestring)
                 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: