Merge pull request #1085 from PyCQA/revert-1041

Revert "Merge pull request #1041 from asfaltboy/issue-830-e721-types-regex-incorrect"

pycodestyle.py

@@ -134,10 +134,8 @@
                                      r'\s*(?(1)|(None|False|True))\b')
 COMPARE_NEGATIVE_REGEX = re.compile(r'\b(?<!is\s)(not)\s+[^][)(}{ ]+\s+'
                                     r'(in|is)\s')
-COMPARE_TYPE_REGEX = re.compile(
-    r'(?:[=!]=|is(?:\s+not)?)\s+type(?:\s*\(\s*([^)]*[^ )])\s*\))' +
-    r'|\btype(?:\s*\(\s*([^)]*[^ )])\s*\))\s+(?:[=!]=|is(?:\s+not)?)'
-)
+COMPARE_TYPE_REGEX = re.compile(r'(?:[=!]=|is(?:\s+not)?)\s+type(?:s.\w+Type'
+                                r'|\s*\(\s*([^)]*[^ )])\s*\))')
 KEYWORD_REGEX = re.compile(r'(\s*)\b(?:%s)\b(\s*)' % r'|'.join(KEYWORDS))
 OPERATOR_REGEX = re.compile(r'(?:[^,\s])(\s*)(?:[-+*/|!<=>%&^]+|:=)(\s*)')
 LAMBDA_REGEX = re.compile(r'\blambda\b')
@@ -1446,6 +1444,13 @@ def comparison_type(logical_line, noqa):
 
     Okay: if isinstance(obj, int):
     E721: if type(obj) is type(1):
+
+    When checking if an object is a string, keep in mind that it might
+    be a unicode string too! In Python 2.3, str and unicode have a
+    common base class, basestring, so you can do:
+
+    Okay: if isinstance(obj, basestring):
+    Okay: if type(a1) is type(b1):
     """
     match = COMPARE_TYPE_REGEX.search(logical_line)
     if match and not noqa:

testsuite/E72.py

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #: E721
 if type(res) != type(""):
     pass
-#: Okay
+#: E721
 import types
 
 if res == types.IntType:
@@ -47,6 +47,8 @@
     pass
 if isinstance(res, types.MethodType):
     pass
+if type(a) != type(b) or type(a) == type(ccc):
+    pass
 #: Okay
 def func_histype(a, b, c):
     pass
@@ -79,11 +81,6 @@ def func_histype(a, b, c):
 except Exception:
     pass
 #: Okay
-from . import custom_types as types
-
-red = types.ColorTypeRED
-red is types.ColorType.RED
-#: Okay
 from . import compute_type
 
 if compute_type(foo) == 5: