1 files changed, 5 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/paste/deploy/converters.py b/paste/deploy/converters.py
index f852e6c..f37d267 100644
--- a/paste/deploy/converters.py
+++ b/paste/deploy/converters.py
@@ -1,17 +1,17 @@
 # (c) 2005 Ian Bicking and contributors; written for Paste (http://pythonpaste.org)
 # Licensed under the MIT license: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php
+from paste.deploy.compat import basestring
 
 
 def asbool(obj):
-    if isinstance(obj, (str, unicode)):
+    if isinstance(obj, basestring):
         obj = obj.strip().lower()
         if obj in ['true', 'yes', 'on', 'y', 't', '1']:
             return True
         elif obj in ['false', 'no', 'off', 'n', 'f', '0']:
             return False
         else:
-            raise ValueError(
-                "String is not true/false: %r" % obj)
+            raise ValueError("String is not true/false: %r" % obj)
     return bool(obj)
 
 
@@ -19,12 +19,11 @@ def asint(obj):
     try:
         return int(obj)
     except (TypeError, ValueError):
-        raise ValueError(
-            "Bad integer value: %r" % obj)
+        raise ValueError("Bad integer value: %r" % obj)
 
 
 def aslist(obj, sep=None, strip=True):
-    if isinstance(obj, (str, unicode)):
+    if isinstance(obj, basestring):
         lst = obj.split(sep)
         if strip:
             lst = [v.strip() for v in lst]