On Sun, 24 Feb 2013 16:08:01 -0500, Roy Smith wrote: > In article <mailman.2438.1361739512.2939.python-l...@python.org>, > Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > no need to remember what's an object and what's not -- everything is >> > an object > > Well, not quite everything. If I write: > > if foo: > do_this() > and_this() > > the code block making up the body of the "if" statement is not an > object. In some languages, it is.
In Python, that code block isn't any *thing*. It's merely a small part of the enclosing code block, which *is* an object. When we say "everything is an object" in Python, we're talking about values, not arbitrary language constructs. The "*3" bit of "y = x*3" is not a value, a for-loop is not a value, and the delay you experience when you call time.sleep(30) is not a value, so none of these things are objects. This is not to reduce the importance of these things as programming concepts, but they aren't the kind of things we mean when we say everything is an object. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
