From fd58f7655ac5724864ffbdf68286810f1af7d4d1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matthew Honnibal <honnibal+gh@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2016 22:16:43 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Python 3 compatible basestring

---
 spacy/language.py | 9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/spacy/language.py b/spacy/language.py
index 2c7c496b8..1accfe663 100644
--- a/spacy/language.py
+++ b/spacy/language.py
@@ -9,6 +9,13 @@ except ImportError:
     import json
 
 
+try:
+    basestring
+except NameError:
+    basestring = str
+
+
+
 from .tokenizer import Tokenizer
 from .vocab import Vocab
 from .syntax.parser import Parser
@@ -162,7 +169,7 @@ class Language(object):
         self.entity    = entity if entity is not True else defaults.Entity(self.vocab)
         self.parser    = parser if parser is not True else defaults.Parser(self.vocab)
         self.matcher   = matcher if matcher is not True else defaults.Matcher(self.vocab)
-        self.pipeline  = self.pipeline if pipeline is not True else defaults.Pipeline(self)
+        self.pipeline  = pipeline(self) if pipeline is not True else defaults.Pipeline(self)
 
     def __reduce__(self):
         args = (