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-rw-r--r--Lib/sre_compile.py12
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/sre_compile.py b/Lib/sre_compile.py
index f6cbd7bc8e..4f2fb04612 100644
--- a/Lib/sre_compile.py
+++ b/Lib/sre_compile.py
@@ -470,18 +470,8 @@ def _compile_info(code, pattern, flags):
_compile_charset(charset, flags, code)
code[skip] = len(code) - skip
-try:
- unicode
-except NameError:
- STRING_TYPES = (type(""),)
-else:
- STRING_TYPES = (type(""), type(unicode("")))
-
def isstring(obj):
- for tp in STRING_TYPES:
- if isinstance(obj, tp):
- return 1
- return 0
+ return isinstance(obj, basestring)
def _code(p, flags):