Raymond Hettinger added the comment:
I think the current wording is fine. After the type/class unification we tend
to use the words "type" and "class" almost interchangeably. For builtins, we
still tend to say type though.
The language itself tends to mix the terms as well:
>>> class A:
New submission from Andy Harrington :
Documentation in Tutorial section 9.3.3 seems to be stuck in Python 2:
"In Python, the term method is not unique to class instances: other object
types can have methods as well. For example, list objects have methods called
append, insert, remove, sort,
