Michael Foord wrote:
Benjamin Peterson wrote:
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 6:18 PM, Ben Finney
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
"Benjamin Peterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 8:25 AM, Ben Finney
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Use new-style classes throughout
--------------------------------
The following classes will inherit explicitly from the built-in
`object` type, to make all classes in the module part of the new-style
type hierarchy.
* ``TestResult``
* ``TestCase``
* ``TestSuite``
* ``TestLoader``
* ``_WritelnDecorator``
* ``TextTestRunner``
* ``TestProgram``
They already do. __metaclass__ = type is found in unittest.py.
Not in the copy I have. Is that in 3.x only, or in 2.x also?
Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Feb 22 2008, 07:57:53)
[GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5363)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
import unittest
isinstance(unittest.TestCase, object)
True
That proves nothing:
Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Feb 22 2008, 07:57:53)
[GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5363)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> class x: pass
...
>>> isinstance(x, object)
True
>>> isinstance(x, type)
False
>>> type(x)
<type 'classobj'>
Shouldn't isinstance(x, object) be True for any x in recent CPythons
(and hopefully the other implementations too)? It's certainly so for
functions and modules, for , as well as the less esoteric types and
instances of classic classes.
Something that often ties students' heads in knots (and this isn't from
the introductory course):
>>> isinstance(type, object)
True
>>> isinstance(object, type)
True
This is a classic property of general object hierarchies based on
metaclasses. I remember teaching the SmallTalk-80 equivalent to M.Sc.
studnets in the early 1980s, though the details are now lost in the
mists of time. Eyes would always widen, and not everyone would get it.
regards
Steve
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