Re: [Jython-users] basestring

[Frank W. <fwi...@gm...>]

Jython does not have a basestring type, and probably never will.  It
is kind of an implementation detail in CPython -- and will disappear
in Python3000 anyway (although the following probably won't work in
Py3000 eithen).  You can get the some effect by using:

>>> from types import StringTypes
>>> str in StringTypes
1
>>> unicode in StringTypes
1
>>> type("s") in StringTypes
1
>>> type(u"s") in StringTypes
1


On 5/26/06, Jeff Norton <jn...@ac...> wrote:
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> I've got a lot of Python 2.3 code that uses the basestring builtin type.
> E.g.
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>     if isinstance(obj, basestring):
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> Jython 2.2a1 doesn't seeme to have a basestring builtin. Anyone know how =
to
> get access to it?
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> Thanks,
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> Jeff Norton.