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JukkaL opened this issue Sep 6, 2019 · 1 comment
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Confusing error when argument 2 of isinstance is alias to Any #7478

JukkaL opened this issue Sep 6, 2019 · 1 comment

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JukkaL commented Sep 6, 2019

The error generated in the following example doesn't make much sense:

from typing import Any
A = Any
isinstance(object(), A)  # Parameterized generics cannot be used with class or instance checks
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Runtime error is much better: TypeError: Any cannot be used with isinstance()

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