CLN: only decode() bytes strings

decoding unicode strings is pointless. This change should not affect the result because the decode function is a no-op for unicode strings but it is more elegant this way.

Author: gdementen

larray/inout/pandas.py

@@ -218,7 +218,7 @@ def from_frame(df, sort_rows=False, sort_columns=False, parse_header=False, unfo
     a1   b0   4   5
     a1   b1   6   7
     """
-    axes_names = [decode(name, 'utf8') if isinstance(name, basestring) else name
+    axes_names = [decode(name, 'utf8') if isinstance(name, bytes) else name
                   for name in df.index.names]
 
     # handle 2 or more dimensions with the last axis name given using \
@@ -343,7 +343,7 @@ def df_asarray(df, sort_rows=False, sort_columns=False, raw=False, parse_header=
         res = from_series(series, sort_rows=sort_columns)
     else:
         def parse_axis_name(name):
-            if isinstance(name, basestring):
+            if isinstance(name, bytes):
                 name = decode(name, 'utf8')
             if not name:
                 name = None