On 03/24/2015 02:03 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> Python 2 and Python 3 have a wild history of whether strings
> default to ascii or unicode, where Python 3 requires checking
> instanceof(foo, basestr) to cover all strings, but where that
> code is not portable to Python 2.  It's simpler to just state
> that we don't care about Unicode strings, and to just always
> use the simpler instanceof(foo, str) everywhere.

And for all my proof-reading, I already have a commit message change:

s/instanceof/isinstance/

(you can tell I'm not that proficient in python...)

> 
> I'm no python expert, so I'm basing it on this conversation:
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2014-09/msg05278.html
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
> ---
>  scripts/qapi.py | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 

> @@ -354,7 +354,7 @@ def parse_schema(input_file):
>      return exprs
> 
>  def parse_args(typeinfo):
> -    if isinstance(typeinfo, basestring):
> +    if isinstance(typeinfo, str):

at least the code is right.

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