allow Process name to be unicode #7571

diff --git a/Lib/multiprocessing/process.py b/Lib/multiprocessing/process.py
index 0b04e36300fd6c83018d8d1ee0574ffb5cc5bc79..56719d9c9cde17e11030405fdaaaf55d091f1841 100644 (file)
--- a/Lib/multiprocessing/process.py
+++ b/Lib/multiprocessing/process.py
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ class Process(object):
 
     @name.setter
     def name(self, name):
-        assert isinstance(name, str), 'name must be a string'
+        assert isinstance(name, basestring), 'name must be a string'
         self._name = name
 
     @property