commit 3172c5d263eeffff1e89d03d79be3ccc1d60fbde
author Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> Tue Oct 16 18:12:55 2007 +0000
committer Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> Tue Oct 16 18:12:55 2007 +0000
tree a35e103b36b684c4682ded57236199d6a0ecee4b
parent 60d241f135f10312f5a638846659d7e471f6cac9

Patch# 1258 by Christian Heimes: kill basestring.
I like this because it makes the code shorter! :-)

Lib/cmd.py

diff --git a/Lib/cmd.py b/Lib/cmd.py
index a2b2020..6f34e04 100644
--- a/Lib/cmd.py
+++ b/Lib/cmd.py
@@ -356,7 +356,7 @@
             return
 
         nonstrings = [i for i in range(len(list))
-                        if not isinstance(list[i], basestring)]
+                        if not isinstance(list[i], str)]
         if nonstrings:
             raise TypeError("list[i] not a string for i in %s"
                             % ", ".join(map(str, nonstrings)))