A better type check

nedbat · nedbat · commit 369902a2ff08 · 2015-06-21T10:19:12.000-04:00
diff --git a/tests/test_simple.py b/tests/test_simple.py
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 
 # 200 Unicode chars: snowman + poo.
 UNIUNI = u"\u26C4\U0001F4A9"*100
-if isinstance(UNIUNI, type("")):
+if isinstance(UNIUNI, str):
     UNISTR = UNIUNI
 else:
     UNISTR = UNIUNI.encode("utf8")
