do not depend on types.StringTypes anymore

[sfa.git] / sfa / util / xml.py

diff --git a/sfa/util/xml.py b/sfa/util/xml.py
index f46443a..9c4a80f 100755 (executable)
--- a/sfa/util/xml.py
+++ b/sfa/util/xml.py
@@ -1,10 +1,11 @@
 #!/usr/bin/python 
-from types import StringTypes
 from lxml import etree
 from StringIO import StringIO
 from sfa.util.faults import InvalidXML
 from sfa.rspecs.elements.element import Element
 
+from sfa.util.py23 import StringType
+
 # helper functions to help build xpaths
 class XpathFilter:
     @staticmethod
@@ -239,7 +240,7 @@ class XML:
         d=d.copy()
         # looks like iteritems won't stand side-effects
         for k in d.keys():
-            if not isinstance(d[k],StringTypes):
+            if not isinstance(d[k], StringType):
                 del d[k]
 
         element.attrib.update(d)