type-of-primitive (UP003)

Derived from the pyupgrade linter.

Fix is sometimes available.

What it does

Checks for uses of type that take a primitive as an argument.

Why is this bad?

type() returns the type of a given object. A type of a primitive can always be known in advance and accessed directly, which is more concise and explicit than using type().

Example

type(1)

Use instead:

int

References

• Python documentation: type()
• Python documentation: Built-in types