Advocacy opportunity

[Paul Prescod]

John Roth wrote:

> 
> I wouldn't. To me, a root class is a common class that is **the**
> root of the object hierarchy, in some useful sense such as
> contributing numerous common methods. Granted, new style
> classes are rooted in object, but object doesn't seem to
> contribute much except for __getattribute__.

 >>> isinstance(5, object)
True
 >>> dir(object)
['__class__', '__delattr__', '__doc__', '__getattribute__', '__hash__', 
'__init__', '__new__', '__reduce__', '__reduce_ex__', '__repr__', 
'__setattr__', '__str__']
 >>> dir(5)
['__abs__', '__add__', '__and__', '__class__', '__cmp__', '__coerce__', 
'__delattr__', '__div__', '__divmod__', '__doc__', '__float__', 
'__floordiv__', '__getattribute__', '__getnewargs__', '__hash__', 
'__hex__', '__init__', '__int__', '__invert__', '__long__', 
'__lshift__', '__mod__', '__mul__', '__neg__', '__new__', '__nonzero__', 
'__oct__', '__or__', '__pos__', '__pow__', '__radd__', '__rand__', 
'__rdiv__', '__rdivmod__', '__reduce__', '__reduce_ex__', '__repr__', 
'__rfloordiv__', '__rlshift__', '__rmod__', '__rmul__', '__ror__', 
'__rpow__', '__rrshift__', '__rshift__', '__rsub__', '__rtruediv__', 
'__rxor__', '__setattr__', '__str__', '__sub__', '__truediv__', '__xor__']

  Paul Prescod