[Python-Dev] static typing of input arguments in signatures

[Łukasz Langa]

On Apr 19, 2014, at 11:05 AM, Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> wrote:

> Personal experience:  I have my own copy of paramiko because it type checks for strings, and I routinely use a str-subclass.

I have had that kind of problem myself in the past. Most of the time the core issue wasn’t type checking, it was how (badly) it was implemented. `assert obj.__class__ == list` being my favorite one (especially when any iterable would work just fine).

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