[Python-Dev] Small misleadingness in docs (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Sat Feb 14 13:02:49 CET 2009

Georg Brandl wrote:

Since I cannot imagine a scenario where you would want to have non-classes as the arguments of issubclass(),

I had one today, which is what led me to discover this. I'm working on a Python-Ruby bridge that wraps Ruby objects and classes in Python objects.

I wanted to make isinstance() and issubclass() work in the expected way when applied to wrappers around Ruby classes. The ability to fake things using classes and bases turned out to be very handy.

-- Greg

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