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diff --git a/docs/docsite/rst/dev_guide/testing/sanity/no-basestring.rst b/docs/docsite/rst/dev_guide/testing/sanity/no-basestring.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f2fea13 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/docsite/rst/dev_guide/testing/sanity/no-basestring.rst @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +no-basestring +============= + +Do not use ``isinstance(s, basestring)`` as basestring has been removed in +Python3. You can import ``string_types``, ``binary_type``, or ``text_type`` +from ``ansible.module_utils.six`` and then use ``isinstance(s, string_types)`` +or ``isinstance(s, (binary_type, text_type))`` instead. + +If this is part of code to convert a string to a particular type, +``ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters`` contains several functions +that may be even better for you: ``to_text``, ``to_bytes``, and ``to_native``. |