Patch# 1258 by Christian Heimes: kill basestring.
I like this because it makes the code shorter! :-)
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/fancy_getopt.py b/Lib/distutils/fancy_getopt.py
index b3231c3..72441fb 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/fancy_getopt.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/fancy_getopt.py
@@ -154,12 +154,12 @@
raise ValueError("invalid option tuple: %r" % (option,))
# Type- and value-check the option names
- if not isinstance(long, basestring) or len(long) < 2:
+ if not isinstance(long, str) or len(long) < 2:
raise DistutilsGetoptError(("invalid long option '%s': "
"must be a string of length >= 2") % long)
if (not ((short is None) or
- (isinstance(short, basestring) and len(short) == 1))):
+ (isinstance(short, str) and len(short) == 1))):
raise DistutilsGetoptError("invalid short option '%s': "
"must a single character or None" % short)