The builtin basestring is no more with py3. Fixes issue 5701.

Signed-off-by: Luke Inman-Semerau <luke.semerau@gmail.com>
chrisgao · Jun 12, 2013 · cd21e17 · cd21e17
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diff --git a/py/selenium/webdriver/remote/errorhandler.py b/py/selenium/webdriver/remote/errorhandler.py
@@ -32,6 +32,12 @@
 from selenium.common.exceptions import WebDriverException
 from selenium.common.exceptions import MoveTargetOutOfBoundsException
 
+try:
+    basestring
+except NameError:  # Python 3.x
+    basestring = str
+
+
 class ErrorCode(object):
     """
     Error codes defined in the WebDriver wire protocol.