Issue #0002175: Change type() expressions to isinstance() expressions.

Patch from Gerald Britton <gerald.britton@gmail.com>


svn: r10762

src/Simple/_SimpleAccess.py

@@ -612,7 +612,7 @@ class SimpleAccess:
         @rtype: list
         """
         assert(isinstance(obj, (gen.lib.Person, gen.lib.Family, NoneType)))
-        assert(type(restrict) == type([]) or restrict == None)
+        assert(isinstance(restrict, list) or restrict == None)
 
         if obj:
             event_handles = [ ref.ref for ref in obj.get_event_ref_list() ]

src/Simple/_SimpleTable.py

@@ -179,9 +179,9 @@ class SimpleTable:
         for col in range(len(data)):
             item = data[col]
             # FIXME: add better text representations of these objects
-            if type(item) in [str, unicode]:
+            if isinstance(item, basestring):
                 retval.append(item)
-            elif type(item) in [int, float, long]:
+            elif isinstance(item, (int, float, long)):
                 retval.append(item)
                 self.row_sort_val(col, item)
             elif isinstance(item, gen.lib.Person):