# HG changeset patch
# User paulb
# Date 1126389568 0
# Node ID e94fda5e2d3e306f83a335d08ec6b037a5b41ab4
# Parent  b4a3cb77661e64fa2bfe3da2a152297963621c2c
[project @ 2005-09-10 21:59:28 by paulb]
Introduced an isinstance-based test for Unicode and string objects.

diff -r b4a3cb77661e -r e94fda5e2d3e libxml2dom/macrolib/macrolib.py
--- a/libxml2dom/macrolib/macrolib.py	Sat Sep 10 21:59:08 2005 +0000
+++ b/libxml2dom/macrolib/macrolib.py	Sat Sep 10 21:59:28 2005 +0000
@@ -10,13 +10,13 @@
 # NOTE: libxml2 seems to use UTF-8 throughout.
 
 def from_unicode(s):
-    if type(s) == type(u""):
+    if isinstance(s, unicode):
         return s.encode("utf-8")
     else:
         return s
 
 def to_unicode(s):
-    if type(s) == type(""):
+    if isinstance(s, str):
         return unicode(s, encoding="utf-8")
     else:
         return s