Is Python an object based programming langauge?

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"Christopher Browne" <cbbrowne at acm.org> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> In an attempt to throw the authorities off his trail, drevenhaug at hotmail.com
(Graz Bukanoff) transmitted:
> > Is Python an object based programming langauge?
>
> Most languages involve manipuation of some form of "object," so that
> even COBOL could be claimed to be an "object based programming
> language."
>
> You might want to be more specific about what you mean by "object,"
> otherwise people could say "yes" or "no" with equal legitimacy as they
> intend different meanings of "object."

I think, this statement relies on the fact, that everything in python
ia a Object in the term of an OOP language. Look at the C/C++ API.
Here you've always to deal with a special PyObject* type, that's
always the black box, that makes an variable an object. Data can only
manipulated through special access functions. Since that must also
work with pure C these functions must not be part of the PyObject *,
but the rest of OOP is there.

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