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[PATCH v2 03/14] git-p4: remove string type aliasing

From
Yang Zhao <yang.zhao@skyboxlabs.com>
Date
Dec 13, 2019, 23:52 UTC
Message-ID
<20191213235247.23660-5-yang.zhao@skyboxlabs.com>
In-Reply-To
<20191213235247.23660-1-yang.zhao@skyboxlabs.com>

Now that python2.7 is the minimum required version and we no longer use the basestring type, it is not necessary to use type aliasing to ensure python3 compatibility.

Signed-off-by: Yang Zhao <yang.zhao@skyboxlabs.com>
---
 git-p4.py | 16 ----------------
 1 file changed, 16 deletions(-)
diff --git a/git-p4.py b/git-p4.py
index 2f177fb43b..153aff16f3 100755
--- a/git-p4.py
+++ b/git-p4.py
@@ -26,22 +26,6 @@
 import ctypes
 import errno
 
-# support basestring in python3
-try:
-    unicode = unicode
-except NameError:
-    # 'unicode' is undefined, must be Python 3
-    str = str
-    unicode = str
-    bytes = bytes
-    basestring = (str,bytes)
-else:
-    # 'unicode' exists, must be Python 2
-    str = str
-    unicode = unicode
-    bytes = str
-    basestring = basestring
-
 verbose = False
 
 # Only labels/tags matching this will be imported/exported
-- 
2.21.0.windows.1
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  1. 00/14 git-p4: python3 compatibilityYang Zhao, Dec 13, 2019
  2. Yang ZhaoJan 17, 2020
  3. Luke DiamandJan 24, 2020
  4. Luke DiamandJan 30, 2020
  5. Luke DiamandFeb 3, 2020
  6. Yang ZhaoFeb 3, 2020
  7. Yang ZhaoFeb 4, 2020
  8. 01/14 git-p4: make python2.7 the oldest supported versionYang Zhao, Dec 13, 2019
  9. 02/14 git-p4: change the expansion test from basestring to listYang Zhao, Dec 13, 2019
  10. 05/14 git-p4: encode/decode communication with git for python3Yang Zhao, Dec 13, 2019
  11. 03/14 git-p4: remove string type aliasingYang Zhao, Dec 13, 2019
  12. 04/14 git-p4: encode/decode communication with p4 for python3Yang Zhao, Dec 13, 2019
  13. Junio C HamanoDec 17, 2019
  14. 08/14 git-p4: use marshal format version 2 when sending to p4Yang Zhao, Dec 13, 2019
  15. 07/14 git-p4: open .gitp4-usercache.txt in text modeYang Zhao, Dec 13, 2019
  16. 06/14 git-p4: convert path to unicode before processing themYang Zhao, Dec 13, 2019
  17. 09/14 git-p4: fix freezing while waiting for fast-import progressYang Zhao, Dec 13, 2019
  18. 10/14 git-p4: use functools.reduce instead of reduceYang Zhao, Dec 13, 2019
  19. 12/14 git-p4: simplify regex pattern generation for parsing diff-treeYang Zhao, Dec 13, 2019
  20. 11/14 git-p4: use dict.items() iteration for python3 compatibilityYang Zhao, Dec 13, 2019
  21. 14/14 ci: also run linux-gcc pipeline with python3.5 environmentYang Zhao, Dec 13, 2019
  22. 13/14 git-p4: use python3's input() everywhereYang Zhao, Dec 13, 2019

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