Sergio Correia a écrit : > Hi, I'm kinda new to Python (that means, I'm a total noob here), but > have one doubt which is more about consistency that anything else. > > Why if PEP 8 says that "Almost without exception, class names use the > CapWords convention", does the most basic class, object, is lowercase?
Because it is an exception ?-) Notice that all builtin types (list, dict, set, str, unicode, int, long, float, tuple, file, object, type, function, classmethod, staticmethod, property etc) are lower-case. (snip interrogations about "object"'s type) >>>> class Eggs(object): > def __init__(self): > self.x = 1 >>>> type(Eggs) > <type 'type'> > > Type 'type'? What is that supposed to mean? type(Eggs) is roughly equivalent to Eggs.__class__, ie it returns the class of the Eggs class object, IOW the metaclass. In Python, classes are objects, so they are themselves instances of a class - by default, for new-style classes, instances of the class 'type'. In case you wonder, class 'type' is an instance of itself. > Hope this makes any sense ;), Idem !-) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
