Apologies if this has been discussed before.
But does anyone else find it odd that the types of some things are
classes and the classes of some things are types?
>>> type(socket.socket())
<class 'socket.socket'>
>>> type("abc")
<type 'str'>
>>> socket.socket().__class__
<class 'socket.socket'>
>>> "abc".__class__
<type 'str'>
In a recent talk I could only explain this as a historical quirk. As I
understand, it is now possible to make types that behave basically
exactly like classes and classes that behave exactly like types. Is
there any important difference between them anymore?
Paul Prescod
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