Remove uses of the string and types modules:

x in string.whitespace => x.isspace()
type(x) in types.StringTypes => isinstance(x, basestring)
isinstance(x, types.StringTypes) => isinstance(x, basestring)
type(x) is types.StringType => isinstance(x, str)
type(x) == types.StringType => isinstance(x, str)
string.split(x, ...) => x.split(...)
string.join(x, y) => y.join(x)
string.zfill(x, ...) => x.zfill(...)
string.count(x, ...) => x.count(...)
hasattr(types, "UnicodeType") => try: unicode except NameError:
type(x) != types.TupleTuple => not isinstance(x, tuple)
isinstance(x, types.TupleType) => isinstance(x, tuple)
type(x) is types.IntType => isinstance(x, int)

Do not mention the string module in the rlcompleter docstring.

This partially applies SF patch http://www.python.org/sf/562373
(with basestring instead of string). (It excludes the changes to
unittest.py and does not change the os.stat stuff.)

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/rlcompleter.py b/Lib/rlcompleter.py
index 3075a14e3d..de4c024f38 100644
--- a/Lib/rlcompleter.py
+++ b/Lib/rlcompleter.py
@@ -5,9 +5,9 @@ completes keywords, built-ins and globals in a selectable namespace (which
 defaults to __main__); when completing NAME.NAME..., it evaluates (!) the
 expression up to the last dot and completes its attributes.
 
-It's very cool to do "import string" type "string.", hit the
+It's very cool to do "import sys" type "sys.", hit the
 completion key (twice), and see the list of names defined by the
-string module!
+sys module!
 
 Tip: to use the tab key as the completion key, call