Dictionary membership check failure

[Steve Holden]

Zac Burns wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> I have a dictionary that seems to be misbehaving on a membership
> check. This test code:
> 
> 1: import types
> 2: assert myDict.__class__ is types.DictionaryType
[...]

For the record, it would be much simpler and more readable to say

    assert type(myDict) is dict

not to mention it avoids the unnecessary import.

regards
 Steve
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