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'>


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