Checkpoint. Manipulated things so that string literals are always
unicode, and a few other compensating changes, e.g. str <- unicode,
chr <- unichr, and repr() of a unicode string no longer starts
with 'u'. Lots of unit tests are broken, but some basic things
work, in particular distutils works so the extensions can be built,
and test_builtin.py works.
diff --git a/Lib/sre_compile.py b/Lib/sre_compile.py
index f6cbd7b..4f2fb04 100644
--- a/Lib/sre_compile.py
+++ b/Lib/sre_compile.py
@@ -470,18 +470,8 @@
_compile_charset(charset, flags, code)
code[skip] = len(code) - skip
-try:
- unicode
-except NameError:
- STRING_TYPES = (type(""),)
-else:
- STRING_TYPES = (type(""), type(unicode("")))
-
def isstring(obj):
- for tp in STRING_TYPES:
- if isinstance(obj, tp):
- return 1
- return 0
+ return isinstance(obj, basestring)
def _code(p, flags):