Denis S. Otkidach <denis.otkid...@gmail.com> added the comment: Current behavior is unpythonic: documentation explicitly mentions isinstance as preferred way to check type (see http://docs.python.org/library/types.html ).
Also 2.7 is the last minor version with str as "main" string type. So I believe it should use isinstance(val, basestring) to help transition to Python 3. ---------- nosy: +ods _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue10935> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
