From: Christian Heimes <christian@cheimes.de>
Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2008 19:01:59 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Change isbasestring function as discussed on the cvs list a while ago
X-Git-Tag: v2.5.2c1~40
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0b11c5fdf60b22eeed3d77dd31cbd63c6e2e2f12;p=python

Change isbasestring function as discussed on the cvs list a while ago
---

diff --git a/Lib/optparse.py b/Lib/optparse.py
index 4fbe0947e3..5aa3b967b0 100644
--- a/Lib/optparse.py
+++ b/Lib/optparse.py
@@ -823,11 +823,14 @@ try:
 except NameError:
     (True, False) = (1, 0)
 
-def isbasestring(x):
-    try:
+try:
+    basestring
+except NameError:
+    def isbasestring(x):
+        return isinstance(x, (types.StringType, types.UnicodeType))
+else:
+    def isbasestring(x):
         return isinstance(x, basestring)
-    except:
-        return isinstance(x, types.StringType) or isinstance(x, types.UnicodeType)
 
 
 class Values: