[Python-checkins] r60216 - in python/trunk: Lib/encodings/__init__.py Lib/optparse.py Misc/NEWS Parser/tokenizer.c

Christian Heimes lists at cheimes.de
Thu Jan 24 22:36:27 CET 2008


Neal Norwitz wrote:
> isinstance(x, (str, unicode)) works just fine too.  or
> isinstance(x, types.StringTypes)

isinstance(x, (str, unicode)) does not work when Python is build with
--enable-unicode=no. I could simplify the code with isinstance(x,
basestring) but it won't be b/w with older releases of Python.



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