From: Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org>
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2009 15:19:40 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: allow Process name to be unicode #7571
X-Git-Tag: v2.7a2~113
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=27cae34bd0230cb684f58ff45fb00a2ca410eba2;p=python

allow Process name to be unicode #7571
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diff --git a/Lib/multiprocessing/process.py b/Lib/multiprocessing/process.py
index 0b04e36300..56719d9c9c 100644
--- 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