an oop question

[Julieta Shem]

Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> writes:

> On Thu, 3 Nov 2022 at 21:44, Alan Gauld <learn2program at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Also Python is not a purely OOP language, in that you can write
>> functional and procedural code in Python if you wish. In
>> Smalltalk thats notionally impossible because everything
>> is an object. And all programming statements are messages
>> to objects.
>
> In Python, everything is an object. Doesn't that equally mean that
> Python is purely OOP?

I think Alan Gauld pointed out that even syntax is an object in
Smalltalk --- or was.  An if-statement in Python is not an object.