Remove unnecessary isinstance calls from transform predicates (pylint…

…-dev#2507)

astroid/brain/brain_numpy_ndarray.py

@@ -151,8 +151,8 @@ def __class_getitem__(cls, value):
     return node.infer(context=context)
 
 
-def _looks_like_numpy_ndarray(node) -> bool:
-    return isinstance(node, Attribute) and node.attrname == "ndarray"
+def _looks_like_numpy_ndarray(node: Attribute) -> bool:
+    return node.attrname == "ndarray"
 
 
 def register(manager: AstroidManager) -> None:

astroid/brain/brain_type.py

@@ -28,15 +28,15 @@
 from astroid.manager import AstroidManager
 
 
-def _looks_like_type_subscript(node) -> bool:
+def _looks_like_type_subscript(node: nodes.Name) -> bool:
     """
     Try to figure out if a Name node is used inside a type related subscript.
 
     :param node: node to check
     :type node: astroid.nodes.node_classes.NodeNG
     :return: whether the node is a Name node inside a type related subscript
     """
-    if isinstance(node, nodes.Name) and isinstance(node.parent, nodes.Subscript):
+    if isinstance(node.parent, nodes.Subscript):
         return node.name == "type"
     return False
 

astroid/brain/brain_typing.py

@@ -398,7 +398,7 @@ def infer_special_alias(
 
 
 def _looks_like_typing_cast(node: Call) -> bool:
-    return isinstance(node, Call) and (
+    return (
         isinstance(node.func, Name)
         and node.func.name == "cast"
         or isinstance(node.func, Attribute)