[Zope-CMF] Re: Must Python 2.1 compatibility be preserved for CMF 1.5?

[yuppie]

Gregoire Weber wrote:
> .. or may I use Python 2.3 specific constructs?

Oops! Just updated INSTALL.txt:
Zope 2.7 / Python 2.3 is required for HEAD

> For example I'd like to replace:
> 
>    if condition is not _unchanged and type(condition) == type(''):
>       # blah
> 
> by: 
> 
>    if isinstance(condition, types.StringTypes):
>       # blah

Why not basestring?

<http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0290.html#reduce-dependency-on-types-module>


Cheers, Yuppie