terminological obscurity

Donn Cave donn at drizzle.com
Sun May 30 12:11:49 EDT 2004


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.

	Donn Cave, donn at drizzle.com



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