From: Ezio Melotti <ezio.melotti@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 16:59:36 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: #13387: add note about checking the exact type in assertIsInstance doc.
X-Git-Tag: v2.7.3rc1~292
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#13387: add note about checking the exact type in assertIsInstance doc.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/unittest.rst b/Doc/library/unittest.rst
index 16a3a36695d4..3d8a84db38e1 100644
--- a/Doc/library/unittest.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/unittest.rst
@@ -895,6 +895,8 @@ Test cases
 
       Test that *obj* is (or is not) an instance of *cls* (which can be a
       class or a tuple of classes, as supported by :func:`isinstance`).
+      To check for a specific type (without including superclasses) use
+      :func:`assertIs(type(obj), cls) <assertIs>`.
 
       .. versionadded:: 2.7