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authorNeal Norwitz <nnorwitz@gmail.com>2002-05-31 19:58:02 (GMT)
committerNeal Norwitz <nnorwitz@gmail.com>2002-05-31 19:58:02 (GMT)
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Change name from string to basestring
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@@ -12,10 +12,10 @@ Core and builtins
deprecations, use -Walways::PendingDeprecationWarning::
as a command line option or warnings.filterwarnings() in code.
-- A new type object, 'string', is added. This is a common base type
+- A new type object, 'basestring', is added. This is a common base type
for 'str' and 'unicode', and can be used instead of
types.StringTypes, e.g. to test whether something is "a string":
- isinstance(x, string) is True for Unicode and 8-bit strings. This
+ isinstance(x, basestring) is True for Unicode and 8-bit strings. This
is an abstract base class and cannot be instantiated directly.
- Deprecated features of xrange objects have been removed as