terminological obscurity

[Arthur]

On Sun, 30 May 2004 16:11:49 -0000, "Donn Cave" <donn at drizzle.com>
wrote:

>Quoth Arthur <ajsiegel at optonline.com>:
>| On Tue, 25 May 2004 08:19:49 +0200, "Fredrik Lundh"
>| <fredrik at pythonware.com> wrote:
>...
>|> nonsense.  Python has always used duck typing (what's important is what
>|> you can do with x, not what type(x) happens to be).  this hasn't changed a
>|> bit.
>|
>| Putting together what you and Martin are saying, am I correct then
>| that what type(x) returns in Python is something other than x's type.
>
>Python's typing isn't all about what type(x) returns.
>

And they tell me Python's great for kids ;)

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