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Subject: Re: The type/object distinction and possible synthesis of OOP and imperative programming languages
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On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 8:12 AM, Rotwang <sg552@hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<pyshell#2>", line 1, in <module>
>     class C(type(lambda: None)):
> TypeError: type 'function' is not an acceptable base type
>
>
> and I don't think that FunctionType would be considered an "internal
> detail", would it? Not that I'd cite the fact that not all types can be
> inherited from as evidence that types and classes are not synonyms, mind.

Actually, I'm not sure how you'd go about inheriting from a function.
Why not just create a bare class, then assign its __call__ to be the
function you're inheriting from?

ChrisA