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-rw-r--r--argparse.py4
-rw-r--r--test/test_argparse.py6
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/argparse.py b/argparse.py
index bfd6127..3bdcd33 100644
--- a/argparse.py
+++ b/argparse.py
@@ -96,6 +96,10 @@ except NameError:
# for python < 2.4 compatibility (sets module is there since 2.3):
from sets import Set as set
+try:
+ basestring
+except NameError:
+ basestring = str
try:
sorted
diff --git a/test/test_argparse.py b/test/test_argparse.py
index 9141cfb..daead61 100644
--- a/test/test_argparse.py
+++ b/test/test_argparse.py
@@ -10,7 +10,10 @@ import tempfile
import unittest
import argparse
-from StringIO import StringIO
+try:
+ from StringIO import StringIO
+except ImportError:
+ from io import StringIO
class StdIOBuffer(StringIO):
pass
@@ -4364,6 +4367,7 @@ class TestImportStar(TestCase):
if not inspect.ismodule(value)
]
# this will fail on python 2.3 due to "set" and "sorted":
+ # this will fail on python 3.1 due to "basestring"
self.assertEqual(sorted(items), sorted(argparse.__all__))