[Python-ideas] Allow isinstance second argument to be a set of types

[Michael Foord]

On 4 July 2011 16:28, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:

> On Mon, 4 Jul 2011 15:35:55 +0100
> Michael Foord <fuzzyman at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 4 July 2011 08:02, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> >
> > > Michael Foord wrote:
> > >
> > >  It would feel cleaner to me if I could make FunctionTypes a set and
> use
> > >> that as the second argument to isinstance. :-)
> > >>
> > >
> > > Or more generally, any iterable object?
> >
> > I don't care about any iterable. If a set would work then I'd be happy.
> :-)
>
> Sure, but making it work for tuples and sets, but not other iterables,
> would be a pretty lousy API.
>

I have no *objection* to it working for arbitrary iterables, I just don't
care about it.

So does this mean no-one has any objections to my suggested change? I'll
create an issue.

Michael


>
> Regards
>
> Antoine.
>
>
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