[issue5425] 2to3 wrong for types.StringTypes

[Martin v. Löwis]

Martin v. Löwis <martin at v.loewis.de> added the comment:

> Why I considered the existing translation incorrect was because it
> translates something which was a tuple of types in Python 2.x into a
> type of Python 3.x. I fail to see how this can be useful. 

It would translate "isinstance(x, types.StringTypes)" correctly. I agree
that translating to a tuple would be correct in more cases.

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