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PCAP – Certified Associate Python Programmer PCAP-31-03 · Domain 4: Object-Oriented Programming

Isinstance(), issubclass(), and the is / is not operators versus ==

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Last reviewed September 25, 2026 · Leer en español

These tools answer different questions: what kind of thing is this object, how are these classes related, and are these two names referring to the same object or just equal values? Mixing them up is a common source of wrong exam answers.

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