Difference in python between basestring and types.StringType?

Question

What\'s the difference between:

isinstance(foo, types.StringType)

and

isinstance(foo, basestring)

?

Answer 1

This stuff is completely different in Python3

types not longer has StringType
str is always unicode
basestring no longer exists

So try not to sprinkle that stuff through your code too much if you might ever need to port it