Beginners question

[Terry Reedy]

On 8/30/2012 9:30 AM, Oscar Benjamin wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Aug 2012 09:23:03 -0400, Dave Angel <d at davea.name> wrote:
>> I haven't discovered why sometimes the type output shows type
> instead of
>> class.  There are other ways of defining classes, however, and
> perhaps
>> this is using one of them.  Still, it is a class, and stat() is
>> returning an instance of that class.
>
> Builtin types show as type and classes defined in python show as class
> (even if they inherit from builtin types).

Only in 2.x, and this goes back to the old user class system, which the 
OP should not have to learn about.

 >>> type(1)
<class 'int'>


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Terry Jan Reedy