[Tutor] Re : Is instance of what?

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Le Sat, 31 Jan 2009 09:54:24 -0900,
Tim Johnson <tim at johnsons-web.com> a écrit :

> On Saturday 31 January 2009, Andre Engels wrote:
> <...> 
> > > o=a
> <....> 
> > Actually, it is false. To make it true, you have to do o=a() rather than
> > o=a
>  You're correct. That was my typo.
> > > Is there a function that takes one
> > >
> > > argument and returns the class?
> > >
> > > Example:
> > >
> > > class = whatclass(o)
> <...> 
> > o.__class__ (or rather o.__class__.__name__) will work.
> Understood. Thank you.
> tj

type(a) has been changed (since 2.2?) to return the same value as a.__class__
isinstance(a,t) will also be True for any supertype of a's type

class C():
	pass
class D(C):
	pass
o = D()
print isinstance(o,D), isinstance(o,C), isinstance(o,object)
==>
True True True

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