Eliminate use of string.whitespace and a string import with it.

eric-s-raymond · eric-s-raymond · commit 7e642e82d342 · 2001-02-09T12:10:26.000Z
Some of the characters (form feed, vertical tab) are not
legal continuation characters anyway, so this was wrong as
well as annoying.
diff --git a/Lib/CGIHTTPServer.py b/Lib/CGIHTTPServer.py
@@ -23,7 +23,6 @@
 
 import os
 import sys
-import string
 import urllib
 import BaseHTTPServer
 import SimpleHTTPServer
@@ -164,7 +163,7 @@ def run_cgi(self):
             env['CONTENT_LENGTH'] = length
         accept = []
         for line in self.headers.getallmatchingheaders('accept'):
-            if line[:1] in string.whitespace:
+            if line[:1] in "\t\n\r ":
                 accept.append(line.strip())
             else:
                 accept = accept + line[7:].split(',')
