From 3172c5d263eeffff1e89d03d79be3ccc1d60fbde Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 18:12:55 +0000
Subject: Patch# 1258 by Christian Heimes: kill basestring. I like this because
 it makes the code shorter! :-)

---
 Lib/fileinput.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'Lib/fileinput.py')

diff --git a/Lib/fileinput.py b/Lib/fileinput.py
index 5a423a1cfae..0d7ffada8c7 100644
--- a/Lib/fileinput.py
+++ b/Lib/fileinput.py
@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ class FileInput:
 
     def __init__(self, files=None, inplace=0, backup="", bufsize=0,
                  mode="r", openhook=None):
-        if isinstance(files, basestring):
+        if isinstance(files, str):
             files = (files,)
         else:
             if files is None:
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