Python 2 and Python 3 have a wild history of whether strings default to ascii or unicode, where Python 3 requires checking isinstance(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 isinstance(foo, str) everywhere.
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 <ebl...@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <arm...@redhat.com> --- scripts/qapi.py | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/scripts/qapi.py b/scripts/qapi.py index d470347..20ee505 100644 --- a/scripts/qapi.py +++ b/scripts/qapi.py @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ # QAPI helper library # # Copyright IBM, Corp. 2011 -# Copyright (c) 2013 Red Hat Inc. +# Copyright (c) 2013-2015 Red Hat Inc. # # Authors: # Anthony Liguori <aligu...@us.ibm.com> @@ -354,7 +354,7 @@ def parse_schema(input_file): return exprs def parse_args(typeinfo): - if isinstance(typeinfo, basestring): + if isinstance(typeinfo, str): struct = find_struct(typeinfo) assert struct != None typeinfo = struct['data'] -- 2.1.0
