basestring->six.string_types

ox/normalize.py

@@ -4,6 +4,9 @@
 import re
 import unicodedata
 
+from six import string_types
+
+
 _articles = ('the', 'la', 'a', 'die', 'der', 'le', 'el',
              "l'", 'il', 'das', 'les', 'o', 'ein', 'i', 'un', 'los', 'de',
              'an', 'una', 'las', 'eine', 'den', 'gli', 'het', 'os', 'lo',
@@ -95,7 +98,7 @@ def normalize_imdbid(imdbId):
     >>> normalize_imdbid('tt0159206')
     '0159206'
     """
-    if isinstance(imdbId, basestring):
+    if isinstance(imdbId, string_types):
         imdbId = re.sub('.*(\d{7}).*', '\\1', imdbId)
     elif isinstance(imdbId, int):
         imdbId = "%07d" % imdbId