[ python-Feature Requests-1670167 ] isinstance.__doc__ is somewhat irritating

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Feature Requests item #1670167, was opened at 2007-02-27 18:26
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Category: Documentation
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: René Fleschenberg (refl)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: isinstance.__doc__ is somewhat irritating

Initial Comment:
"With a type as second argument, return whether that is the object's type."

That sentence does not really make sense, at least not for new-style classes. After reading that, one could expect that isinstance(1, object) would return False. I think the best thing would be to just drop that sentence from the doc string.


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