Add docs for 'basestring'

[gvanrossum]

BPO	560286
Nosy	@gvanrossum, @rhettinger

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[gvanrossum]

Please document the new built-in abstract type
'string'.

[nnorwitz]

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Updated summary, since string was changed to basestring.