[pypy-issue] [issue846] TypeError: type 'basestring' is not an acceptable base class

[Armin Rigo]

Armin Rigo <armin.rigo at gmail.com> added the comment:

Can we also look in nltk to know why, on earth why, they are subclassing
'basestring' and adding a __new__ that returns something else?  It may be the
case that there is an obscure reason to do that --- instead of, say, subclassing
'object' and adding a __new__ that returns something else.  If there is then we
should make sure that we copy that obscure reason's behavior too...  If there
isn't, then well, I suppose we can just add the patch anyway, just because.

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