[Python-Dev] Further PEP 8 compliance issues in threading and multiprocessing

[Benjamin Peterson]

On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 10:00 AM, Jean-Paul Calderone <exarkun at divmod.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Sep 2008 09:42:06 -0500, Benjamin Peterson
>>
>> Yes, I believe that pretending that functions are classes is a fairly
>> common idiom in the stdlib and out, so I see no problem leaving them
>> alone. We haven't had any complaints about the threading Event
>> function yet either. :)
>
> Here's a complaint.  It's surprising that you can't use Event et al with
> isinstance.  This is something I'm sure a lot of people run into (I did,
> many years ago) when they start to use these APIs.  Once you do figure
> out why it doesn't work, it's not clear how to do what you want, since
> _Event is private.

Does anybody ever complain about not being able to use isinstance on
twisted.application.Application? (At least it's documented as a
function there.)

>
> Jean-Paul
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