From 9f3e5ceb14cbec68561433a820de87a8954adc7b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Marius Gedminas <marius@gedmin.as>
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2015 09:08:41 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] Make sure 'basestring', 'bytes' and 'unicode' are defined

Python 3 doesn't have 'basestring' and 'unicode'.

Python 2.4 doesn't have 'bytes'
---
 lib/ansible/module_utils/basic.py | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/ansible/module_utils/basic.py b/lib/ansible/module_utils/basic.py
index 582aa35e3b2..0995fdd7582 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/module_utils/basic.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/module_utils/basic.py
@@ -73,6 +73,22 @@ try:
 except ImportError:
     imap = map                      # Python 3
 
+try:
+    basestring
+except NameError:
+    basestring = str                # Python 3
+
+try:
+    unicode
+except NameError:
+    unicode = str                   # Python 3
+
+try:
+    bytes
+except NameError:
+    bytes = str                     # Python 2
+
+
 try:
     import json
     # Detect the python-json library which is incompatible