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_support.py

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_support.py b/Lib/test/test_support.py
index 5b2176e..fb634f6 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_support.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_support.py
@@ -529,7 +529,7 @@
     valid_types = (unittest.TestSuite, unittest.TestCase)
     suite = unittest.TestSuite()
     for cls in classes:
-        if isinstance(cls, basestring):
+        if isinstance(cls, str):
             if cls in sys.modules:
                 suite.addTest(unittest.findTestCases(sys.modules[cls]))
             else: