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/locale.py b/Lib/locale.py
index d3294ce..35f4a79 100644
--- a/Lib/locale.py
+++ b/Lib/locale.py
@@ -470,7 +470,7 @@
category may be given as one of the LC_* values.
"""
- if locale and type(locale) is not type(""):
+ if locale and not isinstance(locale, basestring):
# convert to string
locale = normalize(_build_localename(locale))
return _setlocale(category, locale)