Far from complete

[Steve Holden]

Kay Schluehr wrote:
> Section 2.3 of the Python 2.5. tutorial
> 
> "The following sections describe the standard types that are built into
> the interpreter. Historically, Python's built-in types have differed
> from user-defined types because it was not possible to use the built-in
> types as the basis for object-oriented inheritance. With the 2.2
> release this situation has started to change, although the intended
> unification of user-defined and built-in types is as yet far from
> complete. "
> 
> "Far from complete"? Have I missed something?
> 
Releases 2.3 through 2.5, by the look of it :)

Of course the "classic" classes still remain, and probably won't 
disappear until 3.0, so that could be regarded as "completion" of the 
change described. Then *everything* will ultimately be based on "object".

regards
  Steve
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