Still the __new__ hell ...

[Aahz]

In article <1hv8x6v.1x0ceur1nnwi46N%aleax at mac.com>,
Alex Martelli <aleax at mac.com> wrote:
>Steve Holden <steve at holdenweb.com> wrote:
>> 
>> basestring is a *type*.
>> 
>>   >>> basestring
>> <type 'basestring'>
>> 
>> It's the base class of which both str and unicode are subclasses.
>
>I believe it used to be a tuple back in Python 2.2 (sorry, don't have a
>Python 2.2 installation to check this right now).

Python 2.2.2 (#1, Feb 24 2003, 19:13:11)
[GCC 3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-4)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> basestring
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
NameError: name 'basestring' is not defined
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