Minor bug in multiprocessing?

[Frank Millman]

Hi all

This is a minor issue, but I thought I would mention it.

I am on Python 2.6.2. I have 'from __future__ import unicode_literals' at 
the top of my programs.

I am experimenting with multiprocessing, and in particular subclassing the 
Process class.

If I create a subclass and pass "name='test'" as one of the arguments, I get 
the following -

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "F:\junk\multiprocess\mp5.py", line 37, in <module>
    p = Frank(name='test')
  File "F:\junk\multiprocess\mp5.py", line 18, in __init__
    self.name = name
  File "C:\Python26\lib\multiprocessing\process.py", line 141, in name
    assert isinstance(name, str), 'name must be a string'
AssertionError: name must be a string

If I change the argument to "name=str('test')" there is no error.

For Python 2.x I think the assertion should be "isinstance(name, 
basestring)" to prevent this from happening.

Is this worth reporting, if it has not been reported already?

Thanks

Frank Millman