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Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> writes:

> Generally, my answer would be, "You probably don't need the type as
> much as you think you do."  
> […]
> Also, don't overlook isinstance().

Agreed.

> But when you do need it, type(x) is better than x.__class__, simply
> because we should always favor builtin functions over direct access of
> dunder-names where possible.

Thanks.

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?

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