Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> writes: > On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 3:50 PM, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> > wrote: > > Should we expect (ignoring pathological cases) the assertion > > ‘type(obj) is obj.__class__’ to hold true? If not, under what > > circumstances would it be sensible for those to differ? > > By "pathological cases", do you mean arbitrarily changing > obj.__class__
By “pathological cases” I mean to acknowledge that, in Python, of course any attribute or function can be changed merely to thwart some rule about how those attributes and functions will generally behave — and to exclude such cases from the question where there is no purpose to the case other than the thwarting of the general rule. -- \ “I still have my Christmas Tree. I looked at it today. Sure | `\ enough, I couldn't see any forests.” —Steven Wright | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
