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Re: Making Classes Subclassable

From Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject Re: Making Classes Subclassable
Date 2016-07-05 09:02 -0600
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On Mon, Jul 4, 2016 at 2:34 AM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro
<lawrencedo99@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Monday, July 4, 2016 at 7:58:07 PM UTC+12, dieter wrote:
>> --> "type(obj)" or "obj.__class__" (there are small differences)
>> give you the type/class of "obj".
>
> When would it not be the same?

I think the only remaining difference in Python 3 is that
obj.__class__ is assignable and type(obj) is not. For most uses,
type(obj) would be preferred though, in the same way that len(obj) is
preferable to obj.__len__().

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Making Classes Subclassable Lawrence D’Oliveiro <lawrencedo99@gmail.com> - 2016-07-02 21:31 -0700
  Re: Making Classes Subclassable dieter <dieter@handshake.de> - 2016-07-04 09:57 +0200
    Re: Making Classes Subclassable Lawrence D’Oliveiro <lawrencedo99@gmail.com> - 2016-07-04 01:34 -0700
      Re: Making Classes Subclassable Michael Selik <michael.selik@gmail.com> - 2016-07-05 05:26 +0000
        Re: Making Classes Subclassable Lawrence D’Oliveiro <lawrencedo99@gmail.com> - 2016-07-05 00:08 -0700
      Re: Making Classes Subclassable dieter <dieter@handshake.de> - 2016-07-05 09:55 +0200
      Re: Making Classes Subclassable Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2016-07-05 18:31 +1000
        Re: Making Classes Subclassable Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2016-07-05 08:41 -0600
          Re: Making Classes Subclassable Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-07-06 01:33 +1000
      Re: Making Classes Subclassable Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2016-07-05 09:02 -0600
        Re: Making Classes Subclassable Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-07-06 01:41 +1000
        Re: Making Classes Subclassable Lawrence D’Oliveiro <lawrencedo99@gmail.com> - 2016-07-05 19:31 -0700
    Re: Making Classes Subclassable Lawrence D’Oliveiro <lawrencedo99@gmail.com> - 2016-07-05 20:04 -0700
  Re: Making Classes Subclassable Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2016-07-05 08:52 -0600

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