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Re: Beginners question

From Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>
Subject Re: Beginners question
Date 2012-08-30 14:22 -0400
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On 8/30/2012 9:30 AM, Oscar Benjamin wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Aug 2012 09:23:03 -0400, Dave Angel <d@davea.name> wrote:
>> I haven't discovered why sometimes the type output shows type
> instead of
>> class.  There are other ways of defining classes, however, and
> perhaps
>> this is using one of them.  Still, it is a class, and stat() is
>> returning an instance of that class.
>
> Builtin types show as type and classes defined in python show as class
> (even if they inherit from builtin types).

Only in 2.x, and this goes back to the old user class system, which the 
OP should not have to learn about.

 >>> type(1)
<class 'int'>


-- 
Terry Jan Reedy

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Beginners question boltar2003@boltar.world - 2012-08-30 11:54 +0000
  Re: Beginners question MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2012-08-30 13:14 +0100
    Re: Beginners question Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2012-08-30 08:23 -0400
    Re: Beginners question boltar2003@boltar.world - 2012-08-30 12:50 +0000
      Re: Beginners question Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-08-30 23:06 +1000
        Re: Beginners question boltar2003@boltar.world - 2012-08-30 13:16 +0000
      Re: Beginners question Dave Angel <d@davea.name> - 2012-08-30 09:23 -0400
      Re: Beginners question Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com> - 2012-08-30 14:30 +0100
      Re: Beginners question Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2012-08-30 14:22 -0400
  Re: Beginners question Dave Angel <d@davea.name> - 2012-08-30 08:25 -0400
    Re: Beginners question boltar2003@boltar.world - 2012-08-30 12:53 +0000
  Re: Beginners question Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-08-30 22:32 +1000
  Re: Beginners question Ulrich Eckhardt <ulrich.eckhardt@dominolaser.com> - 2012-08-30 14:49 +0200
    Re: Beginners question Ulrich Eckhardt <ulrich.eckhardt@dominolaser.com> - 2012-08-30 16:41 +0200
    Re: Beginners question Hans Mulder <hansmu@xs4all.nl> - 2012-08-30 17:38 +0200
  Re: Beginners question charvigroups@gmail.com - 2012-09-04 23:28 -0700
    Re: Beginners question Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-09-05 09:03 +0100
    Re: Beginners question Dave Angel <d@davea.name> - 2012-09-05 09:21 -0400

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