In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "infidel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [ ... ] type is, from my trivial understanding, the > base type and base metaclass for everything else in python. Saying > "type is an object" is only confusing you into thinking it is a > subclass of object, which is not the case. Sure is: >>> type.__bases__ (<type 'object'>,) > object is a class, which I > believe has type as it's metaclass (though I could be mistaken - this > gets terribly confusing very quickly). Correct: >>> object.__class__ <type 'type'> type also has type as its metaclass: >>> type.__class__ <type 'type'> In other words, type is an instance of itself. Just -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
