On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 11:15 AM, TheDoctor <dreamingforw...@gmail.com> wrote: > Let me make this clearer to you, Chris, because I don't want you to have to > suck it too, like the rest of this community. > > A type is not an object. You see it as one, because you are MENTALLY lexing > your own code on the screen. But python does not define a type. It defines > certain primitives, like strings and integers. But it doesn't define what an > OBJECT is. So you and everyone else are beating around the bush trying to > define something that the LANGUAGE ITSELF doesn't define. So, don't make a > claim about it. > > In Python 2.7 type(type) is type (not object), but isinstance(type, object) > is true -- so it is ambiguous, even contradictory, in the language. >
I'm not saying this for dreamingforward's benefit, as he clearly isn't interested in learning, but in case the OP is confused: Checking the type of something doesn't tell you what it isn't. The isinstance check is true, because type is an instance of type, which is a subclass of object, therefore type is an instance of object. Similarly, you could check this: >>> issubclass(type, object) True So you can see that a type IS an object. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
