This PR is stale because it has been open for 30 days with no activity.

@markshannon As code owner, do you think there is any worth to this?

Yes, I do. type(x) is quite common in Python code (unlike the 3 argument form).

LGTM. Let's rerun the tests before merging as they are a month old.

Any update on this? I'm seeing some nice benchmarks:

.\python.bat -m pyperf timeit -s "import collections, itertools" "collections.deque(map(type, itertools.repeat(17, 1_000_000)), maxlen=0)"
Before: Mean +- std dev: 26.0 ms +- 0.8 ms
After:  Mean +- std dev: 11.6 ms +- 0.1 ms

.\python.bat -m pyperf timeit "type(17)"
Before: 51.6 ns +- 3.5 ns
After:  33.8 ns +- 2.1 ns

@markshannon Any update on this?

⚠️⚠️⚠️ Buildbot failure ⚠️⚠️⚠️

Hi! The buildbot s390x RHEL8 3.x has failed when building commit b19855b.

What do you need to do:

1. Don't panic.
2. Check the buildbot page in the devguide if you don't know what the buildbots are or how they work.
3. Go to the page of the buildbot that failed (https://buildbot.python.org/all/#builders/509/builds/780) and take a look at the build logs.
4. Check if the failure is related to this commit (b19855b) or if it is a false positive.
5. If the failure is related to this commit, please, reflect that on the issue and make a new Pull Request with a fix.

You can take a look at the buildbot page here:

https://buildbot.python.org/all/#builders/509/builds/780

Summary of the results of the build (if available):

== Tests result: ENV CHANGED ==

411 tests OK.

10 slowest tests:

• test_concurrent_futures: 3 min 24 sec
• test_multiprocessing_spawn: 1 min 41 sec
• test_capi: 1 min 26 sec
• test_unparse: 1 min 10 sec
• test_multiprocessing_forkserver: 1 min 7 sec
• test_gdb: 1 min 6 sec
• test_peg_generator: 1 min 5 sec
• test_tokenize: 1 min 2 sec
• test_asyncio: 58.5 sec
• test_multiprocessing_fork: 57.0 sec

1 test altered the execution environment:
test_asyncio

14 tests skipped:
test_devpoll test_ioctl test_kqueue test_msilib test_nis
test_ossaudiodev test_startfile test_tix test_tk test_ttk_guionly
test_winconsoleio test_winreg test_winsound test_zipfile64

Total duration: 5 min 44 sec

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/dje/cpython-buildarea/3.x.edelsohn-rhel8-z/build/Lib/asyncio/sslproto.py", line 321, in __del__
    self.close()
  File "/home/dje/cpython-buildarea/3.x.edelsohn-rhel8-z/build/Lib/asyncio/sslproto.py", line 316, in close
    self._ssl_protocol._start_shutdown()
  File "/home/dje/cpython-buildarea/3.x.edelsohn-rhel8-z/build/Lib/asyncio/sslproto.py", line 590, in _start_shutdown
    self._abort()
  File "/home/dje/cpython-buildarea/3.x.edelsohn-rhel8-z/build/Lib/asyncio/sslproto.py", line 731, in _abort
    self._transport.abort()
  File "/home/dje/cpython-buildarea/3.x.edelsohn-rhel8-z/build/Lib/asyncio/selector_events.py", line 680, in abort
    self._force_close(None)
  File "/home/dje/cpython-buildarea/3.x.edelsohn-rhel8-z/build/Lib/asyncio/selector_events.py", line 731, in _force_close
    self._loop.call_soon(self._call_connection_lost, exc)
  File "/home/dje/cpython-buildarea/3.x.edelsohn-rhel8-z/build/Lib/asyncio/base_events.py", line 745, in call_soon
    self._check_closed()
  File "/home/dje/cpython-buildarea/3.x.edelsohn-rhel8-z/build/Lib/asyncio/base_events.py", line 510, in _check_closed
    raise RuntimeError('Event loop is closed')
RuntimeError: Event loop is closed

Buildbot failure is unrelated to this PR