On Mon, Jul 4, 2016 at 2:34 AM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro <lawrenced...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Monday, July 4, 2016 at 7:58:07 PM UTC+12, dieter wrote: >> --> "type(obj)" or "obj.__class__" (there are small differences) >> give you the type/class of "obj". > > When would it not be the same?
I think the only remaining difference in Python 3 is that obj.__class__ is assignable and type(obj) is not. For most uses, type(obj) would be preferred though, in the same way that len(obj) is preferable to obj.__len__(). -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
