Python typing: Use 'str', not 'string' (#6422)
Python typing: Use 'str', not 'string' (#6422)

https://mypy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/cheat_sheet.html

[flake8](http://flake8.pycqa.org) testing of https://github.com/tensorflow/models on Python 3.7.1

$ __flake8 . --count --select=E9,F63,F72,F82 --show-source --statistics__
```
./official/recommendation/data_pipeline.py:346:41: F821 undefined name 'string'
               epoch_dir=None           # type: string
                                        ^
```
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