Everything is an object in python - object class and type class

Marko Rauhamaa marko at pacujo.net
Tue Jun 2 18:33:00 EDT 2015


Grant Edwards <invalid at invalid.invalid>:

> On 2015-06-02, Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Accepting for the sake of argument that "something to be subclassed"
>> is a reasonable definition of object,
>
> Huh?  You can't subclass an object.  You can subclass a Class.

More to the point: you don't need classes for objects -- even in the
deepest OOP sense.

In Python, classes are little more than constructor functions.


Marko



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