[Python-Dev] removing the new and types modules (original) (raw)

Steven Bethard steven.bethard at gmail.com
Wed Nov 28 23:38:11 CET 2007

On Nov 28, 2007 2:23 PM, <henning.vonbargen at arcor.de> wrote:

Sorry if this is a dumb question, but are there actually good reasons to remove "types"? IMHO the types module helps keeping code readable. For example "if type(obj) == FloatType" is just more readable than "if type(obj) == type(1.0)".

But you should really be writing::

if isinstance(obj, float)

for most situations, and::

if type(obj) == float

if you really have to check the exact type.

STeVe

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