Patch# 1258 by Christian Heimes: kill basestring.
I like this because it makes the code shorter! :-)
diff --git a/Lib/xml/dom/pulldom.py b/Lib/xml/dom/pulldom.py
index c15618f..81a36b0 100644
--- a/Lib/xml/dom/pulldom.py
+++ b/Lib/xml/dom/pulldom.py
@@ -325,7 +325,7 @@
def parse(stream_or_string, parser=None, bufsize=None):
if bufsize is None:
bufsize = default_bufsize
- if isinstance(stream_or_string, basestring):
+ if isinstance(stream_or_string, str):
stream = open(stream_or_string)
else:
stream = stream_or_string