July 22, 2010
12:45 a.m.
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 8:34 PM, Eric Smith <report@bugs.python.org> wrote:
Although why all of the methods say "string" and not "str" isn't clear to me. Probably historical.
Indeed; we used "string" in the docs as an informal way to say what eventually became known as basestring. -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake at gmail.com> "A storm broke loose in my mind." --Albert Einstein