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Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2015 11:30:34 +1000
Subject: Re: Everything is an object in python - object class and type class
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On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 11:15 AM, TheDoctor <dreamingforward@gmail.com> wrot=
e:
> Let me make this clearer to you, Chris, because I don't want you to have =
to suck it too, like the rest of this community.
>
> A type is not an object.  You see it as one, because you are MENTALLY lex=
ing your own code on the screen.  But python does not define a type.  It de=
fines certain primitives, like strings and integers.  But it doesn't define=
 what an OBJECT is.  So you and everyone else are beating around the bush t=
rying to define something that the LANGUAGE ITSELF doesn't define.  So, don=
't make a claim about it.
>
> In Python 2.7 type(type) is type (not object), but isinstance(type, objec=
t) is true -- so it is ambiguous, even contradictory, in the language.
>

I'm not saying this for dreamingforward's benefit, as he clearly isn't
interested in learning, but in case the OP is confused: Checking the
type of something doesn't tell you what it isn't. The isinstance check
is true, because type is an instance of type, which is a subclass of
object, therefore type is an instance of object. Similarly, you could
check this:

>>> issubclass(type, object)
True

So you can see that a type IS an object.

ChrisA