From 3484f5382cb593386f3871848060de7e29fab6ee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: ichuang <ichuang@mit.edu>
Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2012 14:10:00 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] isinstance instead of type

---
 lms/djangoapps/courseware/courses.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lms/djangoapps/courseware/courses.py b/lms/djangoapps/courseware/courses.py
index 31ae3e7fda..8193988d67 100644
--- a/lms/djangoapps/courseware/courses.py
+++ b/lms/djangoapps/courseware/courses.py
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ def course_staff_group_name(course):
     '''
     course should be either a CourseDescriptor instance, or a string (the .course entry of a Location)
     '''
-    if type(course)==str:
+    if isinstance(course,str):
         coursename = course
     else:
         coursename = course.metadata.get('data_dir','UnknownCourseName')