"isinstance" question

[Ben Finney]

John Nagle <nagle at animats.com> writes:

>   I want to test whether an object is an instance of any user-defined
> class.  "isinstance" is less helpful than one would expect.

Right. The type hierarchy is now unified; there's essentially no
difference in later Python versions between user-defined types and
built-in types.

> So that's useless.

For what purpose?

> I have to be missing something obvious here.

Maybe if we know what you're trying to do, we can suggest a better way.

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Ben Finney