[issue1258] Removal of basestring type

[Guido van Rossum]

Guido van Rossum added the comment:

2007/10/15, Christian Heimes <report at bugs.python.org>:
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> Christian Heimes added the comment:
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> 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.

It did. :-) I renamed it to fix_basestring and submitted it.  See:

Committed revision 58644.

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