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Author fdrake
Recipients docs@python, eric.smith, fdrake, terry.reedy
Date 2010-07-22.00:46:06
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On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 8:34 PM, Eric Smith <report@bugs.python.org> wrote:
> Although why all of the methods say "string" and not "str" isn't clear to me. Probably historical.

Indeed; we used "string" in the docs as an informal way to say what
eventually became known as basestring.

  -Fred
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