On Sun, 05 Feb 2006 18:47:13 -0800, Josiah Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bengt Richter) wrote: >> Are you just lecturing me personally (in which case off list would be more >> appropriate), >> or do you include the authors of the 17 files I count under <some >> prefix>/Lib that have >> isinstance(<something>, int) in them? >> Or would you like to rephrase that with suitable qualifications? ;-) > >I did not mean to sound like I was lecturing you personally. > >Without taking a peek at the source, I would guess that the various uses >of isinstance(<something>, int) are bugs, possibly replacing previous >uses of type(<something>) is int, shortly after int subclassing was >allowed. But that's just a guess. > Thank you. I didn't look either, but I did notice that most (but not all) of them were under <some prefix>/Lib/test/. Maybe it's excusable for test code ;-) Regards, Bengt Richter _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
