From 1ad0311a1d3d4b30c844cf2170d9a910b0e5c5ee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers@googlemail.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 17:17:24 +0200
Subject: BUG: make correlate/convolve work also with unicode mode arg. Closes
 #1705.

---
 numpy/core/numeric.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'numpy/core/numeric.py')

diff --git a/numpy/core/numeric.py b/numpy/core/numeric.py
index dce617846..74b8ba8a4 100644
--- a/numpy/core/numeric.py
+++ b/numpy/core/numeric.py
@@ -587,7 +587,7 @@ _mode_from_name_dict = {'v': 0,
                         'f' : 2}
 
 def _mode_from_name(mode):
-    if isinstance(mode, type("")):
+    if isinstance(mode, basestring):
         return _mode_from_name_dict[mode.lower()[0]]
     return mode
 
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