a bytes object is recognised as a string

[grimley517]

Not sure if this is an issue, or if this should happen. Under the general tools there is a function 'is_string" When I feed it a byte string b"hello in bytes" I expect this to fail as it is a bytes object, not a string object. However the is_string function returns that this is a string.

[ghost]

PR #475 tries to address this issue. I'm not sure how is_string should respond to bytes objects. I've modified this function to work the same between py2 and py3. If I'm wrong, we can document an issue, and then know how to respond to this.

[keikoro]

@Earney Going through old issues - I can see one PR connected to this one here was merged, another wasn't. Can this issue (and the other PR) be closed?

[grimley517]

yes - I think that this was dealt with previously.