From 3992db81b6c4050a26f7e242b1f16fee245b3127 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 17:26:00 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] SF patch# 1759922 by Alexandre Vassalotti. Fix one of the two
 failing tests for minidom.

---
 Lib/xml/dom/pulldom.py | 7 +------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Lib/xml/dom/pulldom.py b/Lib/xml/dom/pulldom.py
index fe9a3a2196e..c1463c91c06 100644
--- a/Lib/xml/dom/pulldom.py
+++ b/Lib/xml/dom/pulldom.py
@@ -2,11 +2,6 @@ import xml.sax
 import xml.sax.handler
 import types
 
-try:
-    _StringTypes = [types.StringType, types.UnicodeType]
-except AttributeError:
-    _StringTypes = [types.StringType]
-
 START_ELEMENT = "START_ELEMENT"
 END_ELEMENT = "END_ELEMENT"
 COMMENT = "COMMENT"
@@ -330,7 +325,7 @@ default_bufsize = (2 ** 14) - 20
 def parse(stream_or_string, parser=None, bufsize=None):
     if bufsize is None:
         bufsize = default_bufsize
-    if type(stream_or_string) in _StringTypes:
+    if isinstance(stream_or_string, basestring):
         stream = open(stream_or_string)
     else:
         stream = stream_or_string