[Numpy-discussion] RE: [Numpy-user] possible error with isarrtype

[Travis Oliphant]

Colin J. Williams wrote:

> One of the deprecated names is ArrayType.  This seems to be closer to 
> the Python style than ndarray.


Not really. 

Rather than test:
type(var) == types.IntType 

you should be testing
isinstance(var, int)

just like rather than testing
type(somearray) == ArrayType

you should be testing
isinstance(somearray, ndarray)

Python style has changed a bit since 2.2 allowed sub-typing builtings

-Travis