Use basestring instead of (str, str8) to test whether

cls is a module *name*.

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_support.py b/Lib/test/test_support.py
index d6aeb29d8e4b24e009c8833869246b5bf0e3a004..57b1db3919def374748e1f327edc374e6408004d 100644 (file)
--- a/Lib/test/test_support.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_support.py
@@ -534,7 +534,7 @@ def run_unittest(*classes):
     valid_types = (unittest.TestSuite, unittest.TestCase)
     suite = unittest.TestSuite()
     for cls in classes:
-        if isinstance(cls, (str, str8)):
+        if isinstance(cls, basestring):
             if cls in sys.modules:
                 suite.addTest(unittest.findTestCases(sys.modules[cls]))
             else: