[Python-Dev] Changes to PEP 8 & 42

[Neal Norwitz]

I've also got a change to PEP 8 (for basestring).  Is the wording ok?
Should I check it in or should Barry/Guido?

Also, it seems that PEP 42 is a bit out of date.  I think the
stat/statvfs changes may be done (at least started), 
the std library uses 4 space indents, math.radians/degrees were added.
Probably others too.

Neal
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*** 542,548 ****
        When checking if an object is a string, keep in mind that it
!       might be a unicode string too!  In Python 2.2, the types module
!       has the StringTypes type defined for that purpose, e.g.:
  
!         from types import StringTypes:
!         if isinstance(strorunicodeobj, StringTypes):
  
--- 542,547 ----
        When checking if an object is a string, keep in mind that it
!       might be a unicode string too!  In Python 2.3, str and unicode
!       have a common base class, basestring, so you can do:
  
!         if isinstance(strorunicodeobj, basestring):