typeError: isinstance() arg 2 must be a type or tuple of types >>>

Question

>>> names=['jill','jack'] >>> isinstance(names,list) Traceback (most recent call last):   File "<pyshell#291>", line 1, in <module>     isinstance(names,list) TypeError: isinstance() arg 2 must be a type or tuple of types >>>  

Am I missing something here?

Answer 1

You've stomped on list by assigning to a local variable of the same name. Don't do that.