type, object hierarchy?

[Eduardo O. Padoan]

On Feb 4, 2008 1:36 AM, 7stud <bbxx789_05ss at yahoo.com> wrote:
> print dir(type)      #__mro__ attribute is in here
> print dir(object)   #no __mro__ attribute
>
>
> class Mammals(object):
>     pass
> class Dog(Mammals):
>     pass
>
> print issubclass(Dog, type)   #False
> print Dog.__mro__
>
> --output:--
> (<class '__main__.Dog'>, <class '__main__.Mammals'>, <type 'object'>)
>
>
> The output suggests that Dog actually is a subclass of type--despite
> the fact that issubclass(Dog, type) returns False.  In addition, the
> output of dir(type) and dir(object):
>
>
> ['__base__', '__bases__', '__basicsize__', '__call__', '__class__',
> '__cmp__', '__delattr__', '__dict__', '__dictoffset__', '__doc__',
> '__flags__', '__getattribute__', '__hash__', '__init__',
> '__itemsize__', '__module__', '__mro__', '__name__', '__new__',
> '__reduce__', '__reduce_ex__', '__repr__', '__setattr__', '__str__',
> '__subclasses__', '__weakrefoffset__', 'mro']
>
> ['__class__', '__delattr__', '__doc__', '__getattribute__',
> '__hash__', '__init__', '__new__', '__reduce__', '__reduce_ex__',
> '__repr__', '__setattr__', '__str__']
>
> suggests that type inherits from object since type has all the same
> attributes as object plus some additional ones.  That seems to
> indicate a hierarchy like this:
>
>
> object
>  |
>  V
> type
>  |
>  V
> Mammals
>  |
>  V
> Dog
>
>
> But then why does issubclass(Dog, type) return False?


Here you should find The Answer (tm):
http://www.cafepy.com/article/python_types_and_objects/python_types_and_objects.html

(Beautifully ilustrated, BTW)

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