[stdlib-sig] proposed removal: the types module

[Jeffrey Yasskin]

On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 8:09 AM, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> wrote:
> On 2008-04-03 16:38, Christian Heimes wrote:
>  > Jesse Noller schrieb:
>  >> On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 10:25 AM, Steven Bethard
>  >> <steven.bethard at gmail.com> wrote:
>  >>> Barry Warsaw schrieb:
>  >>>  > Plus, there are a few types in there that are difficult or impossible
>  >>>  > to get from Python.
>  >>>
>  >>>
>  >>> On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 6:12 AM, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:
>  >>>  >  Actually, inspect.types might be a good place to put them all.
>  >>>
>  >>>  +1 on inspect.types. If you really need to check for things like
>  >>>  MethodType, instead of simply hasattr(obj, '__call__'), then you're
>  >>>  really doing inspect-style code whether you've admitted it to yourself
>  >>>  yet or not. ;-)
>  >>>
>  >>>  Steve
>  >> +1 on inspect.types as well. It makes sense to put it there.
>  >
>  > For your information:
>  >
>  > Guido doesn't like grab bag modules, see http://bugs.python.org/issue1605
>
>  The idea to spread type objects across several different modules
>  is just not practical.
>
>  If you want to test for built-in types that are used by the interpreter,
>  then you want to look in *one central place* for the type object - not
>  in a gazillion different modules.
>
>  You're looking for the type object and don't want to worry about
>  whether this type object could be used in the context of a web
>  request, number crunching or counting beans.
>
>  E.g. where would you look for an Ellipsis type object, or a

Just to pick one, try "type(...)". It's generally clearer to take an
example of what you want and ask for its type, than to look in the
types module.

>  memoryview, where does the iterator type object fit and what
>  about the traceback type object ?
>
>
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