Check if object is a number or boolean

Question

Design a logical expression equivalent to the following statement:

x is a list of three or five elements, the second element of which is

Answer 1

I follow the recent answer who tell to use type and it seems to be the incorrect way according to pylint validation:

I got the message:

C0123: Using type() instead of isinstance() for a typecheck. (unidiomatic-typecheck)

Even if it's an old answer, the correct one is the accepted answer of @Lev Levitsky:

isinstance(x[0], (int, float))