From: Georg Brandl <georg@python.org>
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 21:21:29 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: #3310: stop referring to basestring.
X-Git-Tag: v3.0b2~19
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=01ca04cc49b4f005930bff31d9ac898922e4a917;p=python

#3310: stop referring to basestring.
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diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/classes.rst b/Doc/tutorial/classes.rst
index b9db87b7e6..bf2d0aa94b 100644
--- a/Doc/tutorial/classes.rst
+++ b/Doc/tutorial/classes.rst
@@ -531,9 +531,8 @@ Python has two builtin functions that work with inheritance:
 
 * Use :func:`issubclass` to check class inheritance: ``issubclass(bool, int)``
   is ``True`` since :class:`bool` is a subclass of :class:`int`.  However,
-  ``issubclass(unicode, str)`` is ``False`` since :class:`unicode` is not a
-  subclass of :class:`str` (they only share a common ancestor,
-  :class:`basestring`).
+  ``issubclass(float, int)`` is ``False`` since :class:`float` is not a
+  subclass of :class:`int`.