[ python-Bugs-1100368 ] Wrong "type()" syntax in docs

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Bugs item #1100368, was opened at 2005-01-11 14:03
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Category: Documentation
Group: Python 2.4
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Facundo Batista (facundobatista)
>Assigned to: Raymond Hettinger (rhettinger)
Summary: Wrong "type()" syntax in docs

Initial Comment:
>From the current docs:

  type(object):
      Return the type of an object. The return value
      is a type object. 

>From the interpreter:

>>> help(type)
Help on class type in module __builtin__:

class type(object)
 |  type(object) -> the object's type
 |  type(name, bases, dict) -> a new type

In the documentation is missing the second syntax form.



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Comment By: Michael Chermside (mcherm)
Date: 2005-01-25 16:31

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cjwhrh's comment doesn't seem relevent. It is generally true 
of ALL builtins that they  can be shadowed by local variables.

Facundo is probably right that the newer use of type() should 
be documented.

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Comment By: Colin J. Williams (cjwhrh)
Date: 2005-01-18 17:03

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The accuracy of the above depends partly on the context.

Within a function or method which has "type" as a parameter
the type function described above is no longer accessible.

Colin W.

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