Python Newbie

[Mitya Sirenef]

On 02/24/2013 04:44 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 8:08  AM, Roy Smith <roy at panix.com> wrote:
 >> In article <mailman.2438.1361739512.2939.python-list at python.org>,
 >> Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
 >>
 >>>> no need to remember what's an object and what's not -- everything 
is an
 >>>> object
 >
 > Careful on the citations - Ethan Furman said that, I just quoted him.
 >
 >> Well, not quite everything. If I write:
 >>
 >> if foo:
 >> do_this()
 >> and_this()
 >>
 >> the code block making up the body of the "if" statement is not an
 >> object. In some languages, it is.
 >
 > Maybe, but the code of an entire function *is*. Granted, it's not an
 > object that can be built up manually (at least, not that I know of),
 > and it offers only limited functionality (dis.dis, but not a lot
 > else), so really it could be seen as just an implementation detail of
 > the function object itself. But it's still an object.
 >
 > ChrisA


But if block doesn't have to be inside a function, right? It needs
to be inside a module, but then again everything is inside a module, but
it wouldn't be very object-oriented if the module was the only object in
Python :-).

  -m


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