New submission from Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka+cpyt...@gmail.com>:
There are several occurrences of type(literal) in the code of the stdlib where literal is a literal of built-in type: '', 1, [], {}, etc. I suppose it is a remnants of very old code written when str, int, list, dict, etc were functions and not classes. The proposed PR replaces `type(literal)` with corresponding builtin types. It makes the code cleaner. I consider also idea of replacing identity or equality checks ("is" or "==") with isinstance(). I suppose that that code was written when built-in types were not subclassable. But now there is a reason to use isinstance(). See also issue44711. ---------- components: Library (Lib) messages: 398002 nosy: serhiy.storchaka priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Replace `type(literal)` with corresponding builtin types versions: Python 3.11 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue44712> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com