An "Object" class?

Calvin Spealman cspealma at redhat.com
Tue Aug 27 14:32:22 EDT 2019


`type` is the "class" class (type and class are more or less synonymous
terms in modern Python).

You can find many of Python's implementation types in the `types` library,
including `FunctionType`, here: https://docs.python.org/3/library/types.html

On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 2:19 PM Cristian Cocos <cristi at ieee.org> wrote:

> Thank you! What would be the names of the *class *class, and of the
> *function
> *class please?
>
> On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 1:39 PM Calvin Spealman <cspealma at redhat.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Yes, it is called `object` and `object` is the base class of ALL other
> > classes, including `type`. In fact, it is the only class which does not
> > itself inherit from anything.
> >
> > On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 1:35 PM Cristian Cocos <cristi at ieee.org> wrote:
> >
> >> I know that "Everything is an object in python" as per
> >> https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2015-June/691689.html.
> >> Also,
> >> I am more-or-less convinced that there is a generic "class" (aka "type")
> >> (meta)class (which would be an object, of course). Is there, however, a
> >> generic "object" (meta)class (which would obviously be an object as well
> >> as
> >> a class)?
> >>
> >> Christian
> >>
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