[Python-Dev] [python] Re: removing the new and types modules (original) (raw)
Michael Foord fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk
Wed Nov 28 23:39:35 CET 2007
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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)".
if isinstance(obj, float)
or
if type(obj) is float
I often use FunctionType though.So long as it moves rather than vanishes...
Michael http://www.manning.com/foord
Luckily Python does not distinguish float and double like other languages - otherwise it wouldn't be clear for the average programmer if 1.0 is a float or a double constant.
Henning
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