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-\section{\module{types} ---
- Names for built-in types}
-
-\declaremodule{standard}{types}
-\modulesynopsis{Names for built-in types.}
-
-
-This module defines names for some object types that are used by
-the standard Python interpreter, but not for the types defined by various
-extension modules. Also, it does not include some of the types that
-arise during processing such as the \code{listiterator} type.
-It is safe to use \samp{from types import *} ---
-the module does not export any names besides the ones listed here.
-New names exported by future versions of this module will all end in
-\samp{Type}.
-
-Typical use is for functions that do different things depending on
-their argument types, like the following:
-
-\begin{verbatim}
-from types import *
-def delete(mylist, item):
- if type(item) is IntType:
- del mylist[item]
- else:
- mylist.remove(item)
-\end{verbatim}
-
-Starting in Python 2.2, built-in factory functions such as
-\function{int()} and \function{str()} are also names for the
-corresponding types. This is now the preferred way to access
-the type instead of using the \module{types} module. Accordingly,
-the example above should be written as follows:
-
-\begin{verbatim}
-def delete(mylist, item):
- if isinstance(item, int):
- del mylist[item]
- else:
- mylist.remove(item)
-\end{verbatim}
-
-The module defines the following names:
-
-\begin{datadesc}{NoneType}
-The type of \code{None}.
-\end{datadesc}
-
-\begin{datadesc}{TypeType}
-The type of type objects (such as returned by
-\function{type()}\bifuncindex{type}).
-\end{datadesc}
-
-\begin{datadesc}{BooleanType}
-The type of the \class{bool} values \code{True} and \code{False}; this
-is an alias of the built-in \function{bool()} function.
-\versionadded{2.3}
-\end{datadesc}
-
-\begin{datadesc}{IntType}
-The type of integers (e.g. \code{1}).
-\end{datadesc}
-
-\begin{datadesc}{LongType}
-The type of long integers (e.g. \code{1L}).
-\end{datadesc}
-
-\begin{datadesc}{FloatType}
-The type of floating point numbers (e.g. \code{1.0}).
-\end{datadesc}
-
-\begin{datadesc}{ComplexType}
-The type of complex numbers (e.g. \code{1.0j}). This is not defined
-if Python was built without complex number support.
-\end{datadesc}
-
-\begin{datadesc}{StringType}
-The type of character strings (e.g. \code{'Spam'}).
-\end{datadesc}
-
-\begin{datadesc}{UnicodeType}
-The type of Unicode character strings (e.g. \code{u'Spam'}). This is
-not defined if Python was built without Unicode support.
-\end{datadesc}
-
-\begin{datadesc}{TupleType}
-The type of tuples (e.g. \code{(1, 2, 3, 'Spam')}).
-\end{datadesc}
-
-\begin{datadesc}{ListType}
-The type of lists (e.g. \code{[0, 1, 2, 3]}).
-\end{datadesc}
-
-\begin{datadesc}{DictType}
-The type of dictionaries (e.g. \code{\{'Bacon': 1, 'Ham': 0\}}).
-\end{datadesc}
-
-\begin{datadesc}{DictionaryType}
-An alternate name for \code{DictType}.
-\end{datadesc}
-
-\begin{datadesc}{FunctionType}
-The type of user-defined functions and lambdas.
-\end{datadesc}
-
-\begin{datadesc}{LambdaType}
-An alternate name for \code{FunctionType}.
-\end{datadesc}
-
-\begin{datadesc}{GeneratorType}
-The type of generator-iterator objects, produced by calling a
-generator function.
-\versionadded{2.2}
-\end{datadesc}
-
-\begin{datadesc}{CodeType}
-The type for code objects such as returned by
-\function{compile()}\bifuncindex{compile}.
-\end{datadesc}
-
-\begin{datadesc}{ClassType}
-The type of user-defined classes.
-\end{datadesc}
-
-\begin{datadesc}{InstanceType}
-The type of instances of user-defined classes.
-\end{datadesc}
-
-\begin{datadesc}{MethodType}
-The type of methods of user-defined class instances.
-\end{datadesc}
-
-\begin{datadesc}{UnboundMethodType}
-An alternate name for \code{MethodType}.
-\end{datadesc}
-
-\begin{datadesc}{BuiltinFunctionType}
-The type of built-in functions like \function{len()} or
-\function{sys.exit()}.
-\end{datadesc}
-
-\begin{datadesc}{BuiltinMethodType}
-An alternate name for \code{BuiltinFunction}.
-\end{datadesc}
-
-\begin{datadesc}{ModuleType}
-The type of modules.
-\end{datadesc}
-
-\begin{datadesc}{FileType}
-The type of open file objects such as \code{sys.stdout}.
-\end{datadesc}
-
-\begin{datadesc}{XRangeType}
-The type of range objects returned by
-\function{xrange()}\bifuncindex{xrange}.
-\end{datadesc}
-
-\begin{datadesc}{SliceType}
-The type of objects returned by
-\function{slice()}\bifuncindex{slice}.
-\end{datadesc}
-
-\begin{datadesc}{EllipsisType}
-The type of \code{Ellipsis}.
-\end{datadesc}
-
-\begin{datadesc}{TracebackType}
-The type of traceback objects such as found in
-\code{sys.exc_traceback}.
-\end{datadesc}
-
-\begin{datadesc}{FrameType}
-The type of frame objects such as found in \code{tb.tb_frame} if
-\code{tb} is a traceback object.
-\end{datadesc}
-
-\begin{datadesc}{BufferType}
-The type of buffer objects created by the
-\function{buffer()}\bifuncindex{buffer} function.
-\end{datadesc}
-
-\begin{datadesc}{DictProxyType}
-The type of dict proxies, such as \code{TypeType.__dict__}.
-\end{datadesc}
-
-\begin{datadesc}{NotImplementedType}
-The type of \code{NotImplemented}
-\end{datadesc}
-
-\begin{datadesc}{GetSetDescriptorType}
-The type of objects defined in extension modules with \code{PyGetSetDef}, such
-as \code{FrameType.f_locals} or \code{array.array.typecode}. This constant is
-not defined in implementations of Python that do not have such extension
-types, so for portable code use \code{hasattr(types, 'GetSetDescriptorType')}.
-\versionadded{2.5}
-\end{datadesc}
-
-\begin{datadesc}{MemberDescriptorType}
-The type of objects defined in extension modules with \code{PyMemberDef}, such
-as \code {datetime.timedelta.days}. This constant is not defined in
-implementations of Python that do not have such extension types, so for
-portable code use \code{hasattr(types, 'MemberDescriptorType')}.
-\versionadded{2.5}
-\end{datadesc}
-
-\begin{datadesc}{StringTypes}
-A sequence containing \code{StringType} and \code{UnicodeType} used to
-facilitate easier checking for any string object. Using this is more
-portable than using a sequence of the two string types constructed
-elsewhere since it only contains \code{UnicodeType} if it has been
-built in the running version of Python. For example:
-\code{isinstance(s, types.StringTypes)}.
-\versionadded{2.2}
-\end{datadesc}