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

[Marco Buttu]

On 03/06/2015 13:08, BartC wrote:

> Come on, we're trying to keep this simple.

If we really want to keep it simple, we can take this starting point:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_(computer_science)

If we agree with the Wikipedia definition:

``In the class-based object-oriented programming paradigm, "object" 
refers to a particular instance of a class...``

than we can say in Python everything is an object, because everything is 
an instance of a class. And  of course, object is synonimous for instance:

 >>> (1, 2, 3).foo
Traceback (most recent call last):
    ...
AttributeError: 'tuple' object has no attribute 'foo'

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Marco Buttu

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