No meta-type in Python?

[Erik Max Francis]

Chris Ryland wrote:

> Just out of curiousity, why is there no <type 'type'> in Python?
> 
> I.e., I'd expect type(Ellipsis) to be <type 'type'> rather than
> <type 'ellipsis'>.

There is:

max at charmaine:~% python
Python 2.0 (#5, Nov 10 2000, 21:47:15) 
[GCC egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)] on linux2
Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> Ellipsis
Ellipsis
>>> type(Ellipsis)
<type 'ellipsis'>
>>> type(type(Ellipsis))
<type 'type'>

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