On Sat, 22 Apr 2006 03:12 am, Jim Jewett wrote: > On 4/20/06, Birch, Bill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Type comparison operators would only need a deep > > inspection of the types when the godel strings don't match. > > If most comparisons will be an exact match (not a subtype) > > the lookup should be faster. > > If you're assuming that, then just checking whether > > obj.__class__ is requirement.allowed_class > > should be pretty hard to beat... OK that will work for atomic types.
But if obj.__class__ is <type 'list'> it does not tell us what is _in_ the list. We want to know it's list[any] or list[int] ot list[str] etc. _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
