Don't use 'strorunicodeobj' as the generic object name. Use just

'obj' -- after all, you don't know that it's a string or unicode
object just yet, that's what the test in these examples is for!

pep-0008.txt

@@ -543,19 +543,19 @@ Programming Recommendations
       might be a unicode string too!  In Python 2.3, str and unicode
       have a common base class, basestring, so you can do:
 
-        if isinstance(strorunicodeobj, basestring):
+        if isinstance(obj, basestring):
 
       In Python 2.2, the types module has the StringTypes type defined
       for that purpose, e.g.:
 
         from string import StringTypes
-        if isinstance(strorunicodeobj, StringTypes):
+        if isinstance(obj, StringTypes):
 
       In Python 2.0 and 2.1, you should do:
 
         from string import StringType, UnicodeType
-        if isinstance(strorunicodeobj, StringType) or \
-           isinstance(strorunicodeobj, UnicodeType) :
+        if isinstance(obj, StringType) or \
+           isinstance(obj, UnicodeType) :
 
     - For sequences, (strings, lists, tuples), use the fact that empty
       sequences are false, so "if not seq" or "if seq" is preferable