[issue1258] Removal of basestring type

[Guido van Rossum]

Guido van Rossum added the comment:

On 10/10/07, Christian Heimes <report at bugs.python.org> wrote:
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> Christian Heimes added the comment:
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> test_ctypes: works for me

Did you svn up, make clean and rebuild?

> test_email: need some help from an email expoert

Which test is failing?

> test_httplib: __file__ has a wrong type str8. I'm looking into it.

Yes, __file__ always has that type. Fixing it is messy because it
requires using the default filesystem encoding. Can you try that as a
separate patch?

> test_inspect: same issue as httplib
> test_os: same issue
> test_re: I had the failing test before my changes

But it passes for me.

> File "Lib/test/test_re.py", line 622, in test_empty_array
> ValueError: bad typecode (must be b, B, u, h, H, i, I, l, L, f or d)

Hm. It passes for me.

> test_subprocess: I don't understand why it fails. The traceback is
> missing a line
> test_sys: related to __file__
> test_xml_etree / test_xml_etree_c: a str8 / io error that may be related
> to __file__

Thanks for looking into these!!

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