On Mon, Jun 1, 2015, at 21:15, TheDoctor wrote: > 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.
isinstance(type, object) is true because object is the parent class of type. issubclass(type, object) is also true, and that is why isinstance(int, object) is true. There is no more contradiction than in anything else being an instance of its own class, its parent class, that class's parent class, and ultimately... well, object. type in object.__subclasses__() is also true. type.__base__ is object. I could go on. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
