type, object hierarchy?

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On Sun, 03 Feb 2008 21:31:44 -0800, 7stud wrote:

> On Feb 3, 10:28 pm, 7stud <bbxx789_0... at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> From the docs:
>>
>> issubclass(class, classinfo)
>> Return true if class is a subclass (direct or indirect) of classinfo.
> 
> 
> print issubclass(Dog, object)  #True

So Dog is a subclass of object

> print issubclass(type, object)  #True 

and type is also a subclass of object. But

print issubclass(object, type)  # False

so

> print issubclass(Dog, type)  #False

which is what you would expect - Dog is a subclass of object, and object 
isn't a subclass of type, so Dog isn't a subclass of type either.