From: Christian Heimes <christian@cheimes.de>
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 11:02:28 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Document that basestring has been replaced by str. Issue #1931.
X-Git-Tag: v3.0a3~168
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f534f7b74a4607115bf3de266a5cb13cc47977fd;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

Document that basestring has been replaced by str. Issue #1931.
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.0.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.0.rst
index d24416fa92e6..49883b4ed3d1 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.0.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.0.rst
@@ -154,6 +154,9 @@ Strings and Bytes
 * There is only one string type; its name is ``str`` but its behavior
   and implementation are more like ``unicode`` in 2.x.
 
+* The ``basestring`` superclass has been removed. The ``2to3`` tool
+  replaces every occurence of ``basestring`` with ``str``.
+
 * PEP 3137: There is a new type, ``bytes``, to represent binary data
   (and encoded text, which is treated as binary data until you decide
   to decode it).  The ``str`` and ``bytes`` types cannot be mixed; you