From d9a6faedd647881b4f866b711b5d2b8a4fdba878 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Riccardo Magliocchetti <riccardo.magliocchetti@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2020 11:39:03 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] client: use six.string_types instead of basestring

Which is gone on modern python.
---
 splunklib/client.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/splunklib/client.py b/splunklib/client.py
index 39b1dcc34..baa212298 100644
--- a/splunklib/client.py
+++ b/splunklib/client.py
@@ -3591,7 +3591,7 @@ def update_index(self, name, value):
         :return: Result of POST request
         """
         kwargs = {}
-        kwargs['index.' + name] = value if isinstance(value, basestring) else json.dumps(value)
+        kwargs['index.' + name] = value if isinstance(value, six.string_types) else json.dumps(value)
         return self.post(**kwargs)
 
     def update_field(self, name, value):