From: Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 20:44:14 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Be more consistent, both internally and with recommended practice.
X-Git-Tag: v2.3c1~5782
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a7bb2b9b305bdd2f8c1e29ddcc142f72c9978b9a;p=python

Be more consistent, both internally and with recommended practice.
This closes SF bug #547953.
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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libcgi.tex b/Doc/lib/libcgi.tex
index 4ce4f5c3fb..2f590a87f4 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libcgi.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libcgi.tex
@@ -135,16 +135,14 @@ instance but a list of such instances.  Similarly, in this situation,
 \samp{form.getvalue(\var{key})} would return a list of strings.
 If you expect this possibility
 (when your HTML form contains multiple fields with the same name), use
-the \function{type()} built-in function to determine whether you
+the \function{isinstance()} built-in function to determine whether you
 have a single instance or a list of instances.  For example, this
 code concatenates any number of username fields, separated by
 commas:
 
 \begin{verbatim}
-from types import ListType
-
 value = form.getvalue("username", "")
-if isinstance(value, ListType):
+if isinstance(value, list):
     # Multiple username fields specified
     usernames = ",".join(value)
 else: