Terry Hancock wrote: > On Thursday 01 September 2005 07:28 am, Fuzzyman wrote: > >>What's the difference between this and ``isinstance`` ? > > I must confess that an "isa" operator sounds like it would > have been slightly nicer syntax than the isinstance() built-in > function. But not enough nicer to change, IMHO.
Especially conidering that checking parameters with "isinstance" is considered bad form with Python's duck typing. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list