bpo-44712: Replace "type(literal)" with corresponding builtin types (GH-27294)

I suppose it is a remnants of very old code written when str, int, list, dict, etc
were functions and not classes.

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/pydoc.py b/Lib/pydoc.py
index 297ff96..cec9ac8 100755
--- a/Lib/pydoc.py
+++ b/Lib/pydoc.py
@@ -727,7 +727,7 @@ class HTMLDoc(Doc):
         """Produce HTML for a class tree as given by inspect.getclasstree()."""
         result = ''
         for entry in tree:
-            if type(entry) is type(()):
+            if isinstance(entry, tuple):
                 c, bases = entry
                 result = result + '<dt class="heading-text">'
                 result = result + self.classlink(c, modname)
@@ -737,7 +737,7 @@ class HTMLDoc(Doc):
                         parents.append(self.classlink(base, modname))
                     result = result + '(' + ', '.join(parents) + ')'
                 result = result + '\n</dt>'
-            elif type(entry) is type([]):
+            elif isinstance(entry, list):
                 result = result + '<dd>\n%s</dd>\n' % self.formattree(
                     entry, modname, c)
         return '<dl>\n%s</dl>\n' % result
@@ -1190,14 +1190,14 @@ class TextDoc(Doc):
         """Render in text a class tree as returned by inspect.getclasstree()."""
         result = ''
         for entry in tree:
-            if type(entry) is type(()):
+            if isinstance(entry, tuple):
                 c, bases = entry
                 result = result + prefix + classname(c, modname)
                 if bases and bases != (parent,):
                     parents = (classname(c, modname) for c in bases)
                     result = result + '(%s)' % ', '.join(parents)
                 result = result + '\n'
-            elif type(entry) is type([]):
+            elif isinstance(entry, list):
                 result = result + self.formattree(
                     entry, modname, c, prefix + '    ')
         return result
@@ -2044,7 +2044,7 @@ has the same effect as typing a particular string at the help> prompt.
             return self.input.readline()
 
     def help(self, request):
-        if type(request) is type(''):
+        if isinstance(request, str):
             request = request.strip()
             if request == 'keywords': self.listkeywords()
             elif request == 'symbols': self.listsymbols()
@@ -2129,7 +2129,7 @@ module "pydoc_data.topics" could not be found.
         if not target:
             self.output.write('no documentation found for %s\n' % repr(topic))
             return
-        if type(target) is type(''):
+        if isinstance(target, str):
             return self.showtopic(target, more_xrefs)
 
         label, xrefs = target