From f8241d8bdaa17c01098e2a7a130b396847276808 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: cclauss <cclauss@bluewin.ch>
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2018 23:47:27 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] Define string_types in compat.py

---
 moviepy/compat.py | 13 +++++++++----
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/moviepy/compat.py b/moviepy/compat.py
index ceac4d312..7a007e56c 100644
--- a/moviepy/compat.py
+++ b/moviepy/compat.py
@@ -2,7 +2,12 @@
 import sys
 PY3=sys.version_info.major >= 3
 
-if PY3:
-   from subprocess import DEVNULL  # py3k
-else:
-   DEVNULL = open(os.devnull, 'wb')
+try:
+    string_types = (str, unicode)
+except NameError:
+    string_types = (str)
+   
+try:
+    from subprocess import DEVNULL    # Python 3
+except ImportError:
+    DEVNULL = open(os.devnull, 'wb')  # Python 2

From 12eef3a016ff91eed0dc054d6e4b97fdbf6cabc1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: cclauss <cclauss@bluewin.ch>
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2018 23:51:25 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] Use string_types in VideoClip.py

---
 moviepy/video/VideoClip.py | 10 +++-------
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/moviepy/video/VideoClip.py b/moviepy/video/VideoClip.py
index 0744bef90..5f7a6285f 100644
--- a/moviepy/video/VideoClip.py
+++ b/moviepy/video/VideoClip.py
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 from tqdm import tqdm
 
 from ..Clip import Clip
-from ..compat import DEVNULL, PY3
+from ..compat import DEVNULL, string_types
 from ..config import get_setting
 from ..decorators import (add_mask_if_none, apply_to_mask,
                           convert_masks_to_RGB, convert_to_seconds, outplace,
@@ -896,12 +896,8 @@ def __init__(self, img, ismask=False, transparent=True,
                  fromalpha=False, duration=None):
         VideoClip.__init__(self, ismask=ismask, duration=duration)
 
-        if PY3:
-            if isinstance(img, str):
-                img = imread(img)
-        else:
-            if isinstance(img, (str, unicode)):
-                img = imread(img)
+        if isinstance(img, string_types):
+            img = imread(img)
 
         if len(img.shape) == 3:  # img is (now) a RGB(a) numpy array
 

From 56f7604a8a34228840307e0705c61556497b7a91 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: cclauss <cclauss@bluewin.ch>
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2018 23:54:56 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] Fix comments

---
 moviepy/compat.py | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/moviepy/compat.py b/moviepy/compat.py
index 7a007e56c..0404e57f6 100644
--- a/moviepy/compat.py
+++ b/moviepy/compat.py
@@ -3,9 +3,9 @@
 PY3=sys.version_info.major >= 3
 
 try:
-    string_types = (str, unicode)
+    string_types = (str, unicode)     # Python 2
 except NameError:
-    string_types = (str)
+    string_types = (str)              # Python 3
    
 try:
     from subprocess import DEVNULL    # Python 3