language design question

[Fredrik Lundh]

"Bryan" wrote:

>> and how do you make sure that everything subclasses this base class ?
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> in this hypothetical case, i was assuming len() would be put in object and every
> class subclasses object implicitly or explicitly (ie, new style classes only).
> if it was done that way, would len(obj) == obj.len() in all cases?

why should *everything* be forced to have a length ?

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