- small fix to BoundMetaData to accept unicode or string URLs

2 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/lib/sqlalchemy/engine/url.py b/lib/sqlalchemy/engine/url.py
index f492ce425..2345a399b 100644
--- a/lib/sqlalchemy/engine/url.py
+++ b/lib/sqlalchemy/engine/url.py
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ def make_url(name_or_url):
     
     the given string is parsed according to the rfc1738 spec.
     if an existing URL object is passed, just returns the object."""
-    if isinstance(name_or_url, str) or isinstance(name_or_url, unicode):
+    if isinstance(name_or_url, basestring):
         return _parse_rfc1738_args(name_or_url)
     else:
         return name_or_url
diff --git a/lib/sqlalchemy/schema.py b/lib/sqlalchemy/schema.py
index a2d328bf3..323d30da5 100644
--- a/lib/sqlalchemy/schema.py
+++ b/lib/sqlalchemy/schema.py
@@ -914,7 +914,7 @@ class BoundMetaData(MetaData):
     """builds upon MetaData to provide the capability to bind to an Engine implementation."""
     def __init__(self, engine_or_url, name=None, **kwargs):
         super(BoundMetaData, self).__init__(name, **kwargs)
-        if isinstance(engine_or_url, str):
+        if isinstance(engine_or_url, basestring):
             self._engine = sqlalchemy.create_engine(engine_or_url, **kwargs)
         else:
             self._engine = engine_or_url