[Python-3000] ABC PEP isinstance issue Was: PEP 31XX: A Type Hierarchy for Numbers (and other algebraic entities) (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Sat Apr 28 18:17:38 CEST 2007


On 4/28/07, Jean-Paul Calderone <exarkun at divmod.com> wrote:

Aside from the way in which `x' can already lie:

>>> class X(object): ... class = property(lambda self: int) ... >>> isinstance(X(), int) True >>> Is this behavior changed/going to be changed in Py3k?

I'm not particularly enamored with it, but I believe it once served a purpose for Zope. Does anyone know if it is still needed?

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