Checkpoint. Manipulated things so that string literals are always
unicode, and a few other compensating changes, e.g. str <- unicode,
chr <- unichr, and repr() of a unicode string no longer starts
with 'u'. Lots of unit tests are broken, but some basic things
work, in particular distutils works so the extensions can be built,
and test_builtin.py works.
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/dist.py b/Lib/distutils/dist.py
index 7ed1b5c..89390fb 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/dist.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/dist.py
@@ -598,13 +598,13 @@
keywords = self.metadata.keywords
if keywords is not None:
- if type(keywords) is StringType:
+ if isinstance(keywords, basestring):
keywordlist = keywords.split(',')
self.metadata.keywords = [x.strip() for x in keywordlist]
platforms = self.metadata.platforms
if platforms is not None:
- if type(platforms) is StringType:
+ if isinstance(platforms, basestring):
platformlist = platforms.split(',')
self.metadata.platforms = [x.strip() for x in platformlist]
@@ -906,7 +906,7 @@
neg_opt = {}
try:
- is_string = type(value) is StringType
+ is_string = isinstance(value, basestring)
if option in neg_opt and is_string:
setattr(command_obj, neg_opt[option], not strtobool(value))
elif option in bool_opts and is_string: