[issue16508] include the "object" type in the lists of documented types

Martin Panter added the comment: Here is a patch. Perhaps it is what you had in mind. I added quick mentions of the “object” class to The Standard Type Hierarchy and Other Built-in Types. I added documentation of what the object class’s own implementations do where it provides them. I added se

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Terry J. Reedy added the comment: What does not help is that help(ob) omits all the methods inherited from object, *even when ob is object*. See #20285. -- versions: -Python 3.2 ___ Python tracker __

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R. David Murray added the comment: Doing this is going to be a bit tricky, since currently links like :meth:`object.__format__` go to the special methods section. So I think making the distinction between available special methods and ones that object implements will need to be done at the sa

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Éric Araujo added the comment: I think there was another issue discussing a separation between object.__str__ and someobject.__bytes__, to make it clear which are existing methods of the object class and which are methods that one may implement in their classes. -- ___

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[issue16508] include the "object" type in the lists of documented types

New submission from Chris Jerdonek: This issue is to add the "object" type to the list of types documented in the language reference's standard type hierarchy and the library reference's list of built-in types: http://docs.python.org/dev/reference/datamodel.html#the-standard-type-hierarchy htt