Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdr...@acm.org> added the comment: On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 8:34 PM, Eric Smith <rep...@bugs.python.org> wrote: > Although why all of the methods say "string" and not "str" isn't clear to me. > Probably historical.
Indeed; we used "string" in the docs as an informal way to say what eventually became known as basestring. -Fred ---------- nosy: +fdrake _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue9328> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
