[Python-checkins] r58494 - peps/trunk/pep-3137.txt

[guido.van.rossum]

Author: guido.van.rossum
Date: Tue Oct 16 18:58:38 2007
New Revision: 58494

Modified:
   peps/trunk/pep-3137.txt
Log:
Add removal of basestring.


Modified: peps/trunk/pep-3137.txt
==============================================================================
--- peps/trunk/pep-3137.txt	(original)
+++ peps/trunk/pep-3137.txt	Tue Oct 16 18:58:38 2007
@@ -282,6 +282,13 @@
 contiguous array of bytes at all.  Therefore, the PEP 3118 buffer API
 will be removed from the str type.
 
+The ``basestring`` Type
+-----------------------
+
+The ``basestring`` type will be removed from the language.  Code that
+used to say ``isinstance(x, basestring)`` should be changed to use
+``isinstance(x, str)`` instead.
+
 Pickling
 --------