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JukkaL opened this issue Oct 18, 2017 · 1 comment
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Document why basestring is usually a bad idea #4131

JukkaL opened this issue Oct 18, 2017 · 1 comment
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JukkaL commented Oct 18, 2017

This could go into common issues, as problems with basestring come up pretty frequently.

Also recommend using Union[bytes, Text] or Union[bytes, str] instead (or AnyStr).
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Closing as duplicate of #1537 since that issue has more discussion.

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