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Quentin Pradet commented on LIBCLOUD-1011:
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Thanks for the report!
Feel free to open a pull request on Github.
> A unicode string is not an instance of basestring on Python 2.7.5
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> Key: LIBCLOUD-1011
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LIBCLOUD-1011
> Project: Libcloud
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Core
> Environment: Python 2.7.5 on Centos 7.
> Reporter: Nigel B
> Priority: Major
>
> I've run into a problem with basestring defined in libcloud.utils.py3 for
> python. It does not recognize unicode as an instance of basestring. That
> doesn't sound right.
>
> Here's terminal output from a machine where I can consistently reproduce this
> issue.
>
> {{$ python}}
> {{Python 2.7.5 (default, Aug 4 2017, 00:39:18)}}
> {{[GCC 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-16)] on linux2}}
> {{Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.}}
> {{>>> foo = u'my-unicode-string'}}
> {{>>> isinstance(foo, basestring)}}
> {{True}}
> {{>>> from libcloud.utils.py3 import basestring}}
> {{/srv/softserve/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/libcloud/utils/py3.py:60:
> UserWarning: Missing backports.ssl_match_hostname package}}
> {{ warnings.warn("Missing backports.ssl_match_hostname package")}}
> {{>>> isinstance(foo, basestring)}}
> {{False}}
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