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/smtplib.py

diff --git a/Lib/smtplib.py b/Lib/smtplib.py
index 399444a..e10e327 100755
--- a/Lib/smtplib.py
+++ b/Lib/smtplib.py
@@ -668,7 +668,7 @@
             self.rset()
             raise SMTPSenderRefused(code, resp, from_addr)
         senderrs={}
-        if isinstance(to_addrs, basestring):
+        if isinstance(to_addrs, str):
             to_addrs = [to_addrs]
         for each in to_addrs:
             (code,resp)=self.rcpt(each, rcpt_options)