Patch# 1258 by Christian Heimes: kill basestring.
I like this because it makes the code shorter! :-)
diff --git a/Lib/pkgutil.py b/Lib/pkgutil.py
index 6e93a3e..9c1d07c 100644
--- a/Lib/pkgutil.py
+++ b/Lib/pkgutil.py
@@ -516,7 +516,7 @@
path = path[:] # Start with a copy of the existing path
for dir in sys.path:
- if not isinstance(dir, basestring) or not os.path.isdir(dir):
+ if not isinstance(dir, str) or not os.path.isdir(dir):
continue
subdir = os.path.join(dir, pname)
# XXX This may still add duplicate entries to path on