Largely merge lp:~harlowja/cloud-init/py2-3 albeit manually because it seemed

to be behind trunk.

`tox -e py27` passes full test suite.  Now to work on replacing mocker.

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/cloudinit/mergers/m_dict.py b/cloudinit/mergers/m_dict.py
index a16141fa..87cf1a72 100644
--- a/cloudinit/mergers/m_dict.py
+++ b/cloudinit/mergers/m_dict.py
@@ -16,6 +16,8 @@
 #    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 #    along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 
+import six
+
 DEF_MERGE_TYPE = 'no_replace'
 MERGE_TYPES = ('replace', DEF_MERGE_TYPE,)
 
@@ -57,7 +59,7 @@ class Merger(object):
                 return new_v
             if isinstance(new_v, (list, tuple)) and self._recurse_array:
                 return self._merger.merge(old_v, new_v)
-            if isinstance(new_v, (basestring)) and self._recurse_str:
+            if isinstance(new_v, six.string_types) and self._recurse_str:
                 return self._merger.merge(old_v, new_v)
             if isinstance(new_v, (dict)) and self._recurse_dict:
                 return self._merger.merge(old_v, new_v)