Subject: Re: bug#53046: [PATCH] gnu: python-args: Patch reference to basestring.

From: Maxime Devos <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2022 22:15:41 +0100

> This fixes a build failure in the 'sanity-check' phase.
> +             (substitute* "args.py"
> +               (("basestring") "str"))

Does it actually fix the build failure, or is it only suppressed?

Looking at

<https://github.com/kennethreitz-archive/args/blob/master/args.py>,
line 15--18, it appears that basestring should actually be basestring,
at least for Python 2 (python2-args).

Also, returning #true isn't necessary anymore, and this seems better
fit for a snippet.

Greetings,
Maxime.