Gabriele N Tornetta <phoenix1...@gmail.com> added the comment:
@rhettinger Apologies. You're totally right but I wasn't expecting this to become a lengthy conversation. So, to get closer to the initial issue, I believe that this ticket could be closed provided that the documentation is improved by making developers aware of the potential side effects of isinstance. I was doing some more experiments and it looks like def _isinstance(obj, classinfo): return issubclass(type(obj), classinfo) might be considered a "side-effects-free" version of isinstance. So perhaps one thing to mention in the documentation is that `isinstance(obj, classinfo) != issubclass(type(obj), classinfo)` in general. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue32683> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com