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On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 5:24 PM, Veek. M <vek.m1234@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Also, what's this bit:
>> self.default = default if default else type()
> But type() just gives me:
> TypeError: type() takes 1 or 3 arguments
> on py2,3

Check out the context of the original line of code and see what it's
doing. It isn't the same as "type()" in a bare context.

ChrisA'