[issue16437] issubclass doc improvement

Irit Katriel added the comment: @Ken - not quite. This issue is about isinstance containing "(or recursively, other such tuples)" which is not there for issubclass. -- ___ Python tracker ___

[issue16437] issubclass doc improvement

Ken Jin added the comment: @irit, you may be interested in issue44135, there's an open PR there and it seems to fix what this issue describes. -- nosy: +kj ___ Python tracker ___

[issue16437] issubclass doc improvement

Irit Katriel added the comment: Whether the recursive nature of the check should be documented or not, it seems inconsistent that it's documented for isinstance but not for issubclass. -- nosy: +iritkatriel versions: +Python 3.11 -Python 3.3, Python 3.4 __

[issue16437] issubclass doc improvement

Ezio Melotti added the comment: While this is documented for isinstance, I'm not sure it should be advertised too much, as it seems to me an implementation detail and doesn't seem too useful in practice. This is a side-effect of the fact that isinstance(x, (A, B, ...)) is equivalent to isi

[issue16437] issubclass doc improvement

New submission from Yongzhi Pan: http://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#issubclass "classinfo may be a tuple of class objects." I suggest make it clear like isinstance, use something like this: classinfo may be a tuple of class objects and such tuples. -- assignee: docs@pytho