New submission from Emanuel Barry: The docstring for typing.Any specifically says "- Any object is an instance of Any."; in practice however it's not actually the case, as isinstance(x, Any) raises a TypeError.
AnyMeta makes this behaviour seem intentional, however the official documentation seems to be a bit vague on that one too -- https://docs.python.org/3/library/typing.html#the-any-type makes no mention of 'isinstance', but just the next paragraph mirrors the docstring, in 'Any object is an instance of Any'. I personally believe this is a behaviour error and the docs are correct, as that seems the most logical conclusion. Should this be fixed for 3.5.1? ---------- components: Library (Lib) messages: 254811 nosy: ebarry priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Mismatching documentation <=> behaviour for typing.Any versions: Python 3.5 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue25650> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
