[PATCH v5 04/15] git-p4: change the expansion test from basestring to list

["Ben Keene via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>]

From: Ben Keene <seraphire@gmail.com>

Python 3 handles strings differently than Python 2.7.  Since Python 2
is reaching it's end of life, a series of changes are being submitted to
enable python 3.5 and following support. The current code fails basic
tests under python 3.5.

The original code used 'basestring' in a test to determine if a list or
literal string was passed into 9 different functions.  This is used to
determine if the shell should be invoked when calling subprocess
methods.

Change references to 'basestring' in the isinstance tests to use 'list'
instead. This prepares the code to remove all references to basestring.

Signed-off-by: Ben Keene <seraphire@gmail.com>
---
 git-p4.py | 18 +++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/git-p4.py b/git-p4.py
index 65e926758c..3153186df0 100755
--- a/git-p4.py
+++ b/git-p4.py
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ def p4_build_cmd(cmd):
         # Provide a way to not pass this option by setting git-p4.retries to 0
         real_cmd += ["-r", str(retries)]
 
-    if isinstance(cmd,basestring):
+    if not isinstance(cmd, list):
         real_cmd = ' '.join(real_cmd) + ' ' + cmd
     else:
         real_cmd += cmd
@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ def write_pipe(c, stdin):
     if verbose:
         sys.stderr.write('Writing pipe: %s\n' % str(c))
 
-    expand = isinstance(c,basestring)
+    expand = not isinstance(c, list)
     p = subprocess.Popen(c, stdin=subprocess.PIPE, shell=expand)
     pipe = p.stdin
     val = pipe.write(stdin)
@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ def read_pipe_full(c):
     if verbose:
         sys.stderr.write('Reading pipe: %s\n' % str(c))
 
-    expand = isinstance(c,basestring)
+    expand = not isinstance(c, list)
     p = subprocess.Popen(c, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE, shell=expand)
     (out, err) = p.communicate()
     return (p.returncode, out, err)
@@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ def read_pipe_lines(c):
     if verbose:
         sys.stderr.write('Reading pipe: %s\n' % str(c))
 
-    expand = isinstance(c, basestring)
+    expand = not isinstance(c, list)
     p = subprocess.Popen(c, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, shell=expand)
     pipe = p.stdout
     val = pipe.readlines()
@@ -275,7 +275,7 @@ def p4_has_move_command():
     return True
 
 def system(cmd, ignore_error=False):
-    expand = isinstance(cmd,basestring)
+    expand = not isinstance(cmd, list)
     if verbose:
         sys.stderr.write("executing %s\n" % str(cmd))
     retcode = subprocess.call(cmd, shell=expand)
@@ -287,7 +287,7 @@ def system(cmd, ignore_error=False):
 def p4_system(cmd):
     """Specifically invoke p4 as the system command. """
     real_cmd = p4_build_cmd(cmd)
-    expand = isinstance(real_cmd, basestring)
+    expand = not isinstance(real_cmd, list)
     retcode = subprocess.call(real_cmd, shell=expand)
     if retcode:
         raise CalledProcessError(retcode, real_cmd)
@@ -525,7 +525,7 @@ def getP4OpenedType(file):
 # Return the set of all p4 labels
 def getP4Labels(depotPaths):
     labels = set()
-    if isinstance(depotPaths,basestring):
+    if not isinstance(depotPaths, list):
         depotPaths = [depotPaths]
 
     for l in p4CmdList(["labels"] + ["%s..." % p for p in depotPaths]):
@@ -612,7 +612,7 @@ def isModeExecChanged(src_mode, dst_mode):
 def p4CmdList(cmd, stdin=None, stdin_mode='w+b', cb=None, skip_info=False,
         errors_as_exceptions=False):
 
-    if isinstance(cmd,basestring):
+    if not isinstance(cmd, list):
         cmd = "-G " + cmd
         expand = True
     else:
@@ -629,7 +629,7 @@ def p4CmdList(cmd, stdin=None, stdin_mode='w+b', cb=None, skip_info=False,
     stdin_file = None
     if stdin is not None:
         stdin_file = tempfile.TemporaryFile(prefix='p4-stdin', mode=stdin_mode)
-        if isinstance(stdin,basestring):
+        if not isinstance(stdin, list):
             stdin_file.write(stdin)
         else:
             for i in stdin:
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