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<class 'list'>


Instances of ``GenericAlias`` are not classes at runtime, even though they behave like classes (they can be instantiated and subclassed)::
Instances of ``GenericAlias`` are not classes at runtime (so :func:`inspect.isclass` returns ``False`` for them), even though they behave like classes (they can be instantiated and subclassed)::

>>> import inspect
>>> inspect.isclass(list[int])
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