Thank you for guiding me, Mike. We see us on CLT this weekend :-)

Regards,
  Thomas Güttler

Am 06.03.2017 um 12:01 schrieb Mike Müller:
Am 06.03.17 um 11:12 schrieb Thomas Güttler:
yes, you are right. It's better to leave Python3 clean (without "basestring").

I see two ways now.


six
----

    six.string_types  # replacement for basestring

    Source
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.10/topics/python3/#string-handling-with-six


future
------

    from past.builtins import basestring   # pip install future

    Source http://python-future.org/compatible_idioms.html#basestring


I have no clue which one I should use.

I would recommend future. It gives you a Python-3-like experience in Python 2.
Once you fully transition to Python 3, you only need to remove the future
imports and you don't have any dependency on it any more.

For example:

    from builtins import bytes, str

gives you Python 3 bytes and strings in Python 2. Now, you can replace
basestring with str and it works the same in Python 2 and 3.
Maybe this works for you.

I am pretty happy with future.

Best,
Mike

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