Python 3.0 - is this true?

Arnaud Delobelle arnodel at googlemail.com
Sun Nov 9 12:31:40 EST 2008


Roy Smith <roy at panix.com> writes:

> I spend too much time in C++ pleading with the compiler to allow me to do 
> what I want.  I come to Python to get away from all that type bondage.
>
> As another example, consider a list of items being juggled:
>
> [RubberChicken(), ChainSaw(), Canteloupe()]
>
> I could go through contortions to find some common subclass for these 
> items, but the whole *point* is that they're not of the same type.  And 
> making a list of them is a perfectly reasonable thing to do.

You do realise that all these objects (like any object in Python) are
all instances of the object type, don't you?

-- 
Arnaud



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