Patch# 1258 by Christian Heimes: kill basestring.

I like this because it makes the code shorter! :-)

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/distutils/command/build_ext.py b/Lib/distutils/command/build_ext.py
index a439c49ac63..ddf8f723f80 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/command/build_ext.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/command/build_ext.py
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ class build_ext(Command):
         plat_py_include = sysconfig.get_python_inc(plat_specific=1)
         if self.include_dirs is None:
             self.include_dirs = self.distribution.include_dirs or []
-        if isinstance(self.include_dirs, basestring):
+        if isinstance(self.include_dirs, str):
             self.include_dirs = self.include_dirs.split(os.pathsep)
 
         # Put the Python "system" include dir at the end, so that
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ class build_ext(Command):
         if plat_py_include != py_include:
             self.include_dirs.append(plat_py_include)
 
-        if isinstance(self.libraries, basestring):
+        if isinstance(self.libraries, str):
             self.libraries = [self.libraries]
 
         # Life is easier if we're not forever checking for None, so
@@ -151,12 +151,12 @@ class build_ext(Command):
             self.libraries = []
         if self.library_dirs is None:
             self.library_dirs = []
-        elif isinstance(self.library_dirs, basestring):
+        elif isinstance(self.library_dirs, str):
             self.library_dirs = self.library_dirs.split(os.pathsep)
 
         if self.rpath is None:
             self.rpath = []
-        elif isinstance(self.rpath, basestring):
+        elif isinstance(self.rpath, str):
             self.rpath = self.rpath.split(os.pathsep)
 
         # for extensions under windows use different directories
@@ -309,7 +309,7 @@ class build_ext(Command):
                        "each element of 'ext_modules' option must be an "
                        "Extension instance or 2-tuple")
 
-            if not (isinstance(ext_name, basestring) and
+            if not (isinstance(ext_name, str) and
                     extension_name_re.match(ext_name)):
                 raise DistutilsSetupError(
                        "first element of each tuple in 'ext_modules' "