Patch# 1258 by Christian Heimes: kill basestring.
I like this because it makes the code shorter! :-)
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_posixpath.py b/Lib/test/test_posixpath.py
index 3eb981d..8c0d5ff 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_posixpath.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_posixpath.py
@@ -335,15 +335,15 @@
except ImportError:
pass
else:
- self.assert_(isinstance(posixpath.expanduser("~/"), basestring))
+ self.assert_(isinstance(posixpath.expanduser("~/"), str))
# if home directory == root directory, this test makes no sense
if posixpath.expanduser("~") != '/':
self.assertEqual(
posixpath.expanduser("~") + "/",
posixpath.expanduser("~/")
)
- self.assert_(isinstance(posixpath.expanduser("~root/"), basestring))
- self.assert_(isinstance(posixpath.expanduser("~foo/"), basestring))
+ self.assert_(isinstance(posixpath.expanduser("~root/"), str))
+ self.assert_(isinstance(posixpath.expanduser("~foo/"), str))
self.assertRaises(TypeError, posixpath.expanduser)