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Python Software Foundation. Glossary: duck-typing.
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- Duck Typing
- The decisive question is what can this value do in this context? rather than which named class is it? Python's official glossary defines the style by method or attribute use instead of `type()` or `isinstance()` tests, while its PEP 544 shows that the underlying structural idea can also be checked statically.
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- The decisive question is what can this value do in this context? rather than which named class is it? Python's official glossary defines the style by method or attribute use instead of `type()` or `isinstance()` tests, while its PEP 544 shows that the underlying structural idea can also be checked statically.
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