I was playing around with type() tonight. If I type (pun intended), I get:
py3: type(5)
<class 'int'>
So I naively thought a test for type int should go like:
py3: type(5) == "<class 'int'>"
False
Hmm. So I tried these other failing tests:
py3: type(5) == <class 'int'>
File "<stdin>", line 1
type(5) == <class 'int'>
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
py3: type(5) == 'int()'
False
I finally stumbled onto the correct form:
py3: type(5) == int
True
So my question is why does "type(5)" result in "<class 'int'>", but
the correct Boolean test is "type(5) == int"? I suspect it has
something to do with the built-in attributes of Python objects that I
currently know so very little about.
As always, many thanks in advance!
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boB
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