Oren Tirosh <oren-py-l@hishome.net> writes:
Abstract
This PEP proposes that symbols matching the type name should be added to the types module for all basic Python types in the types module:
types.IntegerType -> types.int types.FunctionType -> types.function types.TracebackType -> types.traceback ...
The long capitalized names currently in the types module will be deprecated.
Um, can I be a little confused? If you are writing code that you know will be run in 2.2 and later, you write isinstance(obj, int) If you want to support 2.1 and so on, you write isinstance(obj, types.IntType) What would writing isinstance(obj, types.int) ever gain you except restricting execution to 2.3+? I mean, I don't have any real opinion *against* this pep, I just don't really see why anyone would care... Cheers, M. -- it's not that perl programmers are idiots, it's that the language rewards idiotic behavior in a way that no other language or tool has ever done -- Erik Naggum, comp.lang.lisp