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

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Wednesday 03 June 2015 08:33, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:

> 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.

That part is true.

> In Python, classes are little more than constructor functions.

But that's not.

Classes give you an inheritance hierarchy. They also hold shared state, and 
behaviour for the instances.



-- 
Steve