Aahz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Alex Martelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> basestring is a *type*. > >> > >> >>> basestring > >> <type 'basestring'> > >> > >> It's the base class of which both str and unicode are subclasses. > > > >I believe it used to be a tuple back in Python 2.2 (sorry, don't have a > >Python 2.2 installation to check this right now). > > Python 2.2.2 (#1, Feb 24 2003, 19:13:11) > [GCC 3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-4)] on linux2 > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. > >>> basestring > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? > NameError: name 'basestring' is not defined
Thanks for double checking on my vague and apparently incorrect historical memory! Obviously I must have been thinking of some _trick_ whereby one bound basestring to the pair to make isinstance on basestring work in 2.2 much as it did later, rather than an intrinsic 2.2 feature. Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
