commit e1dc386f93eb4613dc7e89cc76a031aeee5022ba
Author: Oleh Prypin <oleh@pryp.in>
Date:   Thu Jul 21 18:33:25 2016 +0300

    pybind: Make CephFS bindings and tests compatible with Python 3
    
    Signed-off-by: Oleh Prypin <oleh@pryp.in>

diff --git a/src/pybind/cephfs/cephfs.pyx b/src/pybind/cephfs/cephfs.pyx
index ac17ada1a1..bd14de3b16 100644
--- a/src/pybind/cephfs/cephfs.pyx
+++ b/src/pybind/cephfs/cephfs.pyx
@@ -613,8 +613,7 @@ cdef class LibCephFS(object):
 
         if not isinstance(mode, int):
             raise TypeError('mode must be an int')
-        if isinstance(flags, basestring):
-            flags = cstr(flags, 'flags')
+        if isinstance(flags, str_type):
             cephfs_flags = 0
             if flags == '':
                 cephfs_flags = os.O_RDONLY
