[Python-Dev] type(obj) vs. obj.class (original) (raw)

Steven D'Aprano steve at pearwood.info
Sun Oct 18 21:57:10 EDT 2015


On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 11:41:44AM +1100, Chris Angelico wrote:

What does this provide that collections.deque(maxlen=sizemax) doesn't? I'm a little lost.

The Ringbuffer recipe predates deque by quite a few years. These days I would consider it only useful in a pedagogical context, giving a practical use for changing the class of an object on-the-fly.

-- Steve



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