--- a/src/reportlab/pdfbase/pdfdoc.py	Tue Nov 19 12:21:04 2013 +0000
+++ b/src/reportlab/pdfbase/pdfdoc.py	Tue Nov 19 13:50:34 2013 +0000
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 and are not part of any public interface.  Instead, canvas and font
 classes are made available elsewhere for users to manipulate.
 """
-import string, types, binascii, codecs
+import types, binascii, codecs
 from reportlab.pdfbase import pdfutils
 from reportlab.pdfbase.pdfutils import LINEEND # this constant needed in both
 from reportlab import rl_config
@@ -843,7 +843,7 @@
     if content is None:
         content = teststreamcontent
     content = content.strip()
-    content = string.replace(content, "\n", LINEEND) + LINEEND
+    content = content.replace("\n", LINEEND) + LINEEND
     S = PDFStream(content = content,
                     filters=rl_config.useA85 and [PDFBase85Encode,PDFZCompress] or [PDFZCompress])
     # nothing else needed...
@@ -2010,34 +2010,30 @@
 
 class PDFTrueTypeFont(PDFType1Font):
     Subtype = "TrueType"
-    #local_attributes = string.split("FirstChar LastChar Widths Encoding ToUnicode FontDescriptor") #same
+    #local_attributes = "FirstChar LastChar Widths Encoding ToUnicode FontDescriptor".split() #same
 
 ##class PDFMMType1Font(PDFType1Font):
 ##    Subtype = "MMType1"
 ##
 ##class PDFType3Font(PDFType1Font):
 ##    Subtype = "Type3"
-##    local_attributes = string.split(
-##        "FirstChar LastChar Widths CharProcs FontBBox FontMatrix Resources Encoding")
+##    local_attributes = "FirstChar LastChar Widths CharProcs FontBBox FontMatrix Resources Encoding".split()
 ##
 ##class PDFType0Font(PDFType1Font):
 ##    Subtype = "Type0"
-##    local_attributes = string.split(
-##        "DescendantFonts Encoding")
+##    local_attributes = "DescendantFonts Encoding".split(
 ##
 ##class PDFCIDFontType0(PDFType1Font):
 ##    Subtype = "CIDFontType0"
-##    local_attributes = string.split(
-##        "CIDSystemInfo FontDescriptor DW W DW2 W2 Registry Ordering Supplement")
+##    local_attributes = "CIDSystemInfo FontDescriptor DW W DW2 W2 Registry Ordering Supplement".split()
 ##
 ##class PDFCIDFontType0(PDFType1Font):
 ##    Subtype = "CIDFontType2"
-##    local_attributes = string.split(
-##        "BaseFont CIDToGIDMap CIDSystemInfo FontDescriptor DW W DW2 W2")
+##    local_attributes = "BaseFont CIDToGIDMap CIDSystemInfo FontDescriptor DW W DW2 W2".split()
 ##
 ##class PDFEncoding(PDFType1Font):
 ##    Type = "Encoding"
-##    name_attributes = string.split("Type BaseEncoding")
+##    name_attributes = "Type BaseEncoding".split()
 ##    # these attributes are assumed to already be of the right type
 ##    local_attributes = ["Differences"]
 ##
@@ -2206,7 +2202,7 @@
     def loadImageFromRaw(self,source):
         IMG=[]
         imagedata = pdfutils.makeRawImage(source,IMG=IMG)
-        words = string.split(imagedata[1])
+        words = imagedata[1].split()
         self.width = int(words[1])
         self.height = int(words[3])
         self.colorSpace = {'/RGB':'DeviceRGB', '/G':'DeviceGray', '/CMYK':'DeviceCMYK'}[words[7]]