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authorGuido van Rossum <guido@python.org>2002-05-24 19:01:59 (GMT)
committerGuido van Rossum <guido@python.org>2002-05-24 19:01:59 (GMT)
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- A new type object, 'string', 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 is an abstract base class and cannot be instantiated directly.
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diff --git a/Python/bltinmodule.c b/Python/bltinmodule.c
index d0411e2..311176e 100644
--- a/Python/bltinmodule.c
+++ b/Python/bltinmodule.c
@@ -1905,6 +1905,7 @@ _PyBuiltin_Init(void)
SETBUILTIN("object", &PyBaseObject_Type);
SETBUILTIN("staticmethod", &PyStaticMethod_Type);
SETBUILTIN("str", &PyString_Type);
+ SETBUILTIN("string", &PyBaseString_Type);
SETBUILTIN("super", &PySuper_Type);
SETBUILTIN("tuple", &PyTuple_Type);
SETBUILTIN("type", &PyType_Type);