is python Object oriented??

[Tino Wildenhain]

Muriel de Souza Godoi wrote:
> Python offers support for object orientation, but it's not an 
> object-oriented language.
> I mean, you can code a entire program in Python with no classes. So you 
> use it if you want to.
> 
> It's not like java, which you must use a class to code a Hello World, 
> but Java isn't fully object-oriented, because it doesn't provide support 
> for multiple inheritance and it has primitive types (multiple interfaces 
> and wrappers to primitive types doesn't count  :) )
> 
> AFAIK, the unique fully object oriented languagem is Smaltalk. (maybe 
> Simula?), where everything is a class, even the primitive types.

well actually except keywords, everything is an object in python too,
including of course primitive types (if you say so - practically python
does not have them).

Regards
Tino
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