type() new style class instance says "class", not "ObjectType"

[Magnus Lie Hetland]

After a few draft replies: Yes, type checking is needed for some
applications, such as pickling. However, I don't think there is a
general (intensive) description of the set of "instances" in the new
paradigm; you would probably be better of by a specific (extensive)
description. I.e. special-case what you need (e.g. strings and
numbers) and then check whether something is one of those types or
not.

Maybe... :)

On the other hand -- you don't _have_ to special-case anything. I
believe it's possible to construct any Python value through
function/method calls. But then your XML probably wouldn't be very
pretty ;)

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