Patch# 1258 by Christian Heimes: kill basestring.
I like this because it makes the code shorter! :-)
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_codecs.py b/Lib/test/test_codecs.py
index 2d531d2..22db2ca 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_codecs.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_codecs.py
@@ -803,8 +803,9 @@
codecs.register_error("UnicodeInternalTest", codecs.ignore_errors)
decoder = codecs.getdecoder("unicode_internal")
ab = "ab".encode("unicode_internal")
- ignored = decoder(bytes("%s\x22\x22\x22\x22%s" % (ab[:4], ab[4:])),
- "UnicodeInternalTest")
+ ignored = decoder(bytes("%s\x22\x22\x22\x22%s" % (ab[:4], ab[4:]),
+ "ascii"),
+ "UnicodeInternalTest")
self.assertEquals(("ab", 12), ignored)
# From http://www.gnu.org/software/libidn/draft-josefsson-idn-test-vectors.html