[issue1258] Removal of basestring type

[Christian Heimes]

Christian Heimes added the comment:

Guido van Rossum wrote:
> BTW we need a 2to3 fixer for this.  Should be trivial -- just replace
> *all* occurrences of basestring with str.

I believe you that it's trivial for *you* but I've never dealt with the
fixers or the grammar. Fortunately for me I was able to copy the fixer
for standarderror. It toke just some minor tweaks :)

Let's see if the mail interface can handle attachments.

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