-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Jul 30, 2006, at 4:27 PM, Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote:
> On Sunday 30 July 2006 16:17, Georg Brandl wrote: >> The second "type" seems to be superfluous. ;) > > I was thinking it suggested there was a local named "type". But if > not, yeah. > > I get the impression Barry's pretty new to this "Python thing." > Wonder what > he's been up to. ;-) As I mentioned, this has to be compatible with Python 2.1: Python 2.1.3+ (#1, Apr 25 2005, 22:52:02) [GCC 3.3.5-20050130 (Gentoo Linux 3.3.5.20050130-r1, ssp-3.3.5.20050130-1, pie- on linux2 Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> isinstance(Exception, type) Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? TypeError: isinstance() arg 2 must be a class or type >>> isinstance(Exception, type(type)) 0 Python 2.5b2 (trunk:50835, Jul 25 2006, 23:27:51) [GCC 3.4.6 (Gentoo 3.4.6-r1, ssp-3.4.5-1.0, pie-8.7.9)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> isinstance(Exception, type) True >>> isinstance(Exception, type(type)) True I thought that was rather clever actually. :) - -Barry -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (Darwin) iQCVAwUBRM0fj3EjvBPtnXfVAQI1AQP+ID6BSbJ/4TL7cizvMjrxHD6JVjFKBzD6 7FCwXpvELQt7vlDWGrXWi+Lai/93nGqD42VYRSgtHqFP2gMYKEkM+TaLl91YFuSh B6jO7l5wW7SGlyLQQiibmPBp8uGDG30F1ylM9e9y9c69Hy1LJEa1sG8/AS/FiA+n fpQ/WlTNRvA= =uGDZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ 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