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Subject: Re: interactive help on the base object
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>> What methods, if any does it provide?  Are they all abstract? etc???
>
> Pretty much nothing useful :-)
>
> py> dir(object)
> [...]
>

So (prodding the student), Why does everything inherit from Object if
it provides no functionality?

Practicality-beats-purity-yours?

-- 
MarkJ
Tacoma, Washington