[Tutor] OOP programming principles overview? [Complex numbers and OOP]

dman dsh8290@rit.edu
Wed, 21 Nov 2001 13:46:25 -0500


On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 09:20:41AM -0800, Kirby Urner wrote:
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| Interestingly, as of Python 2.2, you can take ordinary integers
| and study them as objects:

You mean, study them as class instances.  Yes, this is one of the
changes made in 2.2 -- types and classes are now instances of
metaclasses (or something like that) and as a result they behave the
same.

See
    http://www.amk.ca/python/2.2/
for an overview of the changes.

-D