import ctypes
from .compat import (
+ compat_basestring,
compat_cookiejar,
compat_expanduser,
compat_http_client,
# urllib chokes on URLs with non-ASCII characters (see http://bugs.python.org/issue3991)
# To work around aforementioned issue we will replace request's original URL with
# percent-encoded one
- req_is_string = isinstance(req, basestring if sys.version_info < (3, 0) else compat_str)
+ req_is_string = isinstance(req, compat_basestring)
url = req if req_is_string else req.get_full_url()
url_escaped = escape_url(url)