[Python-Dev] type categories -- an example

[Guido van Rossum]

> But is it guaranteed that re.compile will always yield
> an object of the same type?

There are no guarantees in life, but I expect that that is something
that plenty of code depends on, so it will likely stay that way.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)