Aha, with Jason's answer:

Calling isinstance(x,int) on a python x is cheating, because Cython replaces 
it with PyInt_Check (no inheritance to check!).

Calling isinstance on a C variable x goes through IS_INSTANCE which builds 
an unnecessary python boolean. 

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