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Re: Type of an object: ‘obj.class’ versus ‘type(obj)’

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Subject	Re: Type of an object: ‘obj.__class__’ versus ‘type(obj)’
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On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 3:50 PM, Ben Finney <ben+python@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__, or is there some other way for them to differ?

ChrisA

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Re: Type of an object: ‘obj.__class__’ versus ‘type(obj)’ Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-12-16 16:09 +1100

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