commit 3172c5d263eeffff1e89d03d79be3ccc1d60fbde
author Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> Tue Oct 16 18:12:55 2007 +0000
committer Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> Tue Oct 16 18:12:55 2007 +0000
tree a35e103b36b684c4682ded57236199d6a0ecee4b
parent 60d241f135f10312f5a638846659d7e471f6cac9

Patch# 1258 by Christian Heimes: kill basestring.
I like this because it makes the code shorter! :-)

Lib/test/test_abc.py

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_abc.py b/Lib/test/test_abc.py
index 008d839..e6c8415 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_abc.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_abc.py
@@ -81,9 +81,11 @@
         self.assertEqual(issubclass(int, A), True)
         class B(A):
             pass
-        B.register(basestring)
+        B.register(str)
+        class C(str): pass
         self.assertEqual(isinstance("", A), True)
         self.assertEqual(issubclass(str, A), True)
+        self.assertEqual(issubclass(C, A), True)
 
     def test_registration_edge_cases(self):
         class A(metaclass=abc.ABCMeta):