When is an int not an int? Who can explain this?

[Charles T. Smith]

$ python
Python 2.6.5 (r265:79063, Apr 16 2010, 13:09:56) 
[GCC 4.4.3] on linux2
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>>> type(0) is int
True
...
(PDB)type(0) is int
False
(PDB)type(1) is int
False

(PDB)p 5 + 0
5

(PDB)class c (object): pass
(PDB)type (c()) is c
True



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