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You learn something new every day

And today's lesson was... basestring. The base class for str and unicode. Can be used with isinstance to test if you either str or unicode, rather than hacking around. It was definitely news to me, anyway...

Posted by Andy Theyers on August 31, 2006 10:08 AM |

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