[Python-3000] Fwd: proposal: disambiguating type

[Delaney, Timothy (Tim)]

Guido van Rossum wrote:

> I think this is a reasonable suggestion. Perhaps less code would break
> if you renamed the metaclass instead of the inquiry function.

It might be a positive effect if code broke because type(obj) broke -
haven't we been promoting for years that it's normally the wrong thing
to do? Might convince people to revisit any such code ;)

Tim Delaney