1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
88
89
90
91
92
93
94
95
96
97
98
99
100
101
102
|
:mod:`types` --- Names for built-in types
=========================================
.. module:: types
:synopsis: 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 ``listiterator`` type. New names exported by future versions of this module
will all end in ``Type``.
Typical use is for functions that do different things depending on their
argument types, like the following::
from types import IntType
def delete(mylist, item):
if type(item) is IntType:
del mylist[item]
else:
mylist.remove(item)
Starting in Python 2.2, built-in factory functions such as :func:`int` and
:func:`str` are also names for the corresponding types. This is now the
preferred way to access the type instead of using the :mod:`types` module.
Accordingly, the example above should be written as follows::
def delete(mylist, item):
if isinstance(item, int):
del mylist[item]
else:
mylist.remove(item)
Starting in Python 3.0 all types that are also available as builtins are no
longer exposed through the types module.
The module defines the following names:
.. data:: FunctionType
LambdaType
The type of user-defined functions and lambdas.
.. data:: GeneratorType
The type of :term:`generator`-iterator objects, produced by calling a
generator function.
.. data:: CodeType
.. index:: builtin: compile
The type for code objects such as returned by :func:`compile`.
.. data:: MethodType
The type of methods of user-defined class instances.
.. data:: BuiltinFunctionType
BuiltinMethodType
The type of built-in functions like :func:`len` or :func:`sys.exit`.
.. data:: ModuleType
The type of modules.
.. data:: TracebackType
The type of traceback objects such as found in ``sys.exc_info()[2]``.
.. data:: FrameType
The type of frame objects such as found in ``tb.tb_frame`` if ``tb`` is a
traceback object.
.. data:: GetSetDescriptorType
The type of objects defined in extension modules with ``PyGetSetDef``, such
as ``FrameType.f_locals`` or ``array.array.typecode``. This type is used as
descriptor for object attributes; it has the same purpose as the
:class:`property` type, but for classes defined in extension modules.
.. data:: MemberDescriptorType
The type of objects defined in extension modules with ``PyMemberDef``, such
as ``datetime.timedelta.days``. This type is used as descriptor for simple C
data members which use standard conversion functions; it has the same purpose
as the :class:`property` type, but for classes defined in extension modules.
In other implementations of Python, this type may be identical to
``GetSetDescriptorType``.
|
