Remove uses of the string and types modules:

x in string.whitespace => x.isspace()
type(x) in types.StringTypes => isinstance(x, basestring)
isinstance(x, types.StringTypes) => isinstance(x, basestring)
type(x) is types.StringType => isinstance(x, str)
type(x) == types.StringType => isinstance(x, str)
string.split(x, ...) => x.split(...)
string.join(x, y) => y.join(x)
string.zfill(x, ...) => x.zfill(...)
string.count(x, ...) => x.count(...)
hasattr(types, "UnicodeType") => try: unicode except NameError:
type(x) != types.TupleTuple => not isinstance(x, tuple)
isinstance(x, types.TupleType) => isinstance(x, tuple)
type(x) is types.IntType => isinstance(x, int)

Do not mention the string module in the rlcompleter docstring.

This partially applies SF patch http://www.python.org/sf/562373
(with basestring instead of string). (It excludes the changes to
unittest.py and does not change the os.stat stuff.)

Lib/ConfigParser.py

@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ ConfigParser -- responsible for for parsing a list of
         write the configuration state in .ini format
 """
 
-import string, types
+import types
 import re
 
 __all__ = ["NoSectionError","DuplicateSectionError","NoOptionError",
@@ -223,7 +223,7 @@ class ConfigParser:
         configuration files in the list will be read.  A single
         filename may also be given.
         """
-        if type(filenames) in types.StringTypes:
+        if isinstance(filenames, basestring):
             filenames = [filenames]
         for filename in filenames:
             try:
@@ -454,7 +454,7 @@ class ConfigParser:
                             # ';' is a comment delimiter only if it follows
                             # a spacing character
                             pos = optval.find(';')
-                            if pos and optval[pos-1] in string.whitespace:
+                            if pos and optval[pos-1].isspace():
                                 optval = optval[:pos]
                         optval = optval.strip()
                         # allow empty values