Patch# 1258 by Christian Heimes: kill basestring.
I like this because it makes the code shorter! :-)
diff --git a/Lib/subprocess.py b/Lib/subprocess.py
index a34eb29..6b9bb6b 100644
--- a/Lib/subprocess.py
+++ b/Lib/subprocess.py
@@ -698,7 +698,7 @@
errread, errwrite):
"""Execute program (MS Windows version)"""
- if not isinstance(args, basestring):
+ if not isinstance(args, str):
args = list2cmdline(args)
# Process startup details
@@ -913,7 +913,7 @@
errread, errwrite):
"""Execute program (POSIX version)"""
- if isinstance(args, basestring):
+ if isinstance(args, str):
args = [args]
else:
args = list(args)