[Types-sig] Any

[Greg Stein]

On Sun, 19 Dec 1999, Paul Prescod wrote:
> Can somebody tell me why we are looking at the word "Any" instead of
> "Object" or "PyObject." I think that it is useful to encourage people to
> think of Python's type system as a graph and not a set. Or to put it
> another way, we should emphasize what is common about all Python objects
> like the ability to convert them to a string.

Comes from CORBA/IDL.

I don't think most people view the number 5 as an object. Sure, Python
happens to view it that way, but people will say "that's a number!".

From a human perspective, "any" makes more sense than "object".

Cheers,
-g

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Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/