Dum brute force conversion of all types.

However, StringIO really is ByteIO in most cases, and py2.7 should
run but doesn't.
This should be made work first.

2 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/git/refs/log.py b/git/refs/log.py
index e3f3363c..94e07104 100644
--- a/git/refs/log.py
+++ b/git/refs/log.py
@@ -17,6 +17,10 @@ from git.objects.util import (
     Serializable,
     altz_to_utctz_str,
 )
+from git.compat import (
+    xrange,
+    string_types
+)
 
 import time
 import re
@@ -170,7 +174,7 @@ class RefLog(list, Serializable):
         :param stream: file-like object containing the revlog in its native format
             or basestring instance pointing to a file to read"""
         new_entry = RefLogEntry.from_line
-        if isinstance(stream, basestring):
+        if isinstance(stream, string_types):
             stream = file_contents_ro_filepath(stream)
         # END handle stream type
         while True:
diff --git a/git/refs/symbolic.py b/git/refs/symbolic.py
index 0cd04e07..624b1a09 100644
--- a/git/refs/symbolic.py
+++ b/git/refs/symbolic.py
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ from gitdb.util import (
     hex_to_bin,
     LockedFD
 )
+from git.compat import string_types
 
 from .log import RefLog
 
@@ -274,7 +275,7 @@ class SymbolicReference(object):
         elif isinstance(ref, Object):
             obj = ref
             write_value = ref.hexsha
-        elif isinstance(ref, basestring):
+        elif isinstance(ref, string_types):
             try:
                 obj = self.repo.rev_parse(ref + "^{}")    # optionally deref tags
                 write_value = obj.hexsha