Patch# 1258 by Christian Heimes: kill basestring.
I like this because it makes the code shorter! :-)
diff --git a/Lib/urllib2.py b/Lib/urllib2.py
index 2aa90d7..e990128 100644
--- a/Lib/urllib2.py
+++ b/Lib/urllib2.py
@@ -359,7 +359,7 @@
def open(self, fullurl, data=None, timeout=None):
# accept a URL or a Request object
- if isinstance(fullurl, basestring):
+ if isinstance(fullurl, str):
req = Request(fullurl, data)
else:
req = fullurl
@@ -702,7 +702,7 @@
def add_password(self, realm, uri, user, passwd):
# uri could be a single URI or a sequence
- if isinstance(uri, basestring):
+ if isinstance(uri, str):
uri = [uri]
if not realm in self.passwd:
self.passwd[realm] = {}