"Brian Quinlan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > There is a difference between everything being an object and everything > being an instance of a class. In Python, every runtime entity is an > object but not everything is a class instance.
However, everything is an instance of a class or type. And once old-style classes are dropped, all classes will be user-defined types and types will be built-in classes. And it seems that for instances of such unified type-classes, type(x) == x.__class__: >>> type(int) <type 'type'> >>> int.__class__ <type 'type'> >>> class c(object): pass ... >>> c1 = c() >>> type(c1) <class '__main__.c'> >>> c1.__class__ <class '__main__.c'> # don't know if user metaclasses can change this or not So the distinction, if kept, will be pretty thin. Terry J. Reedy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
