[Python-Dev] Octal literals (original) (raw)

Bengt Richter bokr at oz.net
Mon Feb 6 06:55:05 CET 2006

On Sun, 05 Feb 2006 18:47:13 -0800, Josiah Carlson <jcarlson at uci.edu> wrote:

bokr at oz.net (Bengt Richter) wrote: Are you just lecturing me personally (in which case off list would be more appropriate), or do you include the authors of the 17 files I count under /Lib that have isinstance(, int) in them? Or would you like to rephrase that with suitable qualifications? ;-) I did not mean to sound like I was lecturing you personally. Without taking a peek at the source, I would guess that the various uses of isinstance(, int) are bugs, possibly replacing previous uses of type() is int, shortly after int subclassing was allowed. But that's just a guess. Thank you. I didn't look either, but I did notice that most (but not all) of them were under /Lib/test/. Maybe it's excusable for test code ;-)

Regards, Bengt Richter

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