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| -rw-r--r-- | Lib/optparse.py | 12 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/optparse.py b/Lib/optparse.py index 4fbe094..b4a1708 100644 --- a/Lib/optparse.py +++ b/Lib/optparse.py @@ -823,12 +823,14 @@ try: except NameError: (True, False) = (1, 0) -def isbasestring(x): - try: +try: + basestring +except NameError: + def isbasestring(x): + return isinstance(x, (types.StringType, types.UnicodeType)) +else: + def isbasestring(x): return isinstance(x, basestring) - except: - return isinstance(x, types.StringType) or isinstance(x, types.UnicodeType) - class Values: |