chaouche yacine <yacinechaou...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > booleans > ints, floats, longs, complexes > strings, unicode strings > lists, tuples, dictionaries, dictionary views, sets, frozensets, > buffers, bytearrays, slices functions, methods, code > objects,modules,classes, instances, types, nulls (there is exactly one > object of type Null which is None), tracebacks, frames generators, > iterators, xranges, files, > > memoryviews, > context managers, > > These are all listed in this page > http://docs.python.org/2/library/stdtypes.html as built-in types. Am I > getting anything wrong here ? I'm a bit confused about it. I have > never seen so many types in the few programming languages I saw.
Instances aren't types (though types themselves are instances): every object in Python is an instance. If you want a list of types that exist in your particular copy of Python then you can print it out easily enough: ------------------------------------------------ def allsubclasses(base): mod = base.__module__ if mod in ('builtins', '__builtin__', 'exceptions'): yield getattr(base, '__qualname__', base.__name__) else: yield "{}.{}".format(base.__module__, getattr(base, '__qualname__', base.__name__)) for typ in type.__subclasses__(base): for t in allsubclasses(typ): yield t all_types = sorted(set(allsubclasses(object)), key=str.lower) print(len(all_types)) print(all_types) ------------------------------------------------ That won't show any types that haven't been imported, but it gives me 293 types that are all loaded on startup in Python 3.3 and 150 in Python 2.7. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list