Take care of review comments related to audience list.

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -10,11 +10,6 @@ This project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/).
 - Add support for ECDSA public keys in RFC 4253 (OpenSSH) format [#244][244]
 - Renamed commandline script `jwt` to `jwt-cli` to avoid issues with the script clobbering the `jwt` module in some circumstances.
 - Better error messages when using an algorithm that requires the cryptography package, but it isn't available [#230][230]
-
-### Fixed
-- Allow a list of valid audiences to be configured [#205][205]
-
-[v1.4.3][1.4.3]
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 ### Fixed

jwt/api_jwt.py

@@ -87,14 +87,6 @@ def _validate_claims(self, payload, options, audience=None, issuer=None,
         if isinstance(leeway, timedelta):
             leeway = timedelta_total_seconds(leeway)
 
-        if not isinstance(audience, (string_types, type(None), list)):
-            if not isinstance(audience, list):
-                raise TypeError('audience must be a string or None')
-
-            for aud in audience:
-                if not isinstance(aud, (string_types, type(None))):
-                    raise TypeError('audience list can only have string')
-
         self._validate_required_claims(payload, options)
 
         now = timegm(datetime.utcnow().utctimetuple())