[Tutor] Possibly odd question on everything

[Kirby Urner]

That's a good question Gregor.

Most primitives, like 'hash', live as builtin functions,
and if you ask for their types, you get something
like:

  >>> type(hash)
  <type 'builtin_function_or_method'>

But 'print' is special in that its appearance constitutes
an executable command -- it doesn't need (won't take)
any arguments.  So

  >>> type(print)

has to be regarded as bad syntax, since 'print' is an
interpretable command as is.

Python keywords may be listed using the keyword module:

   >>> keyword.kwlist
   ['and', 'assert', 'break', 'class', 'continue', 'def', 'del',
   'elif',   'else', 'except', 'exec', 'finally', 'for', 'from',
   'global', 'if', 'import', 'in', 'is', 'lambda', 'not', 'or',
   'pass', 'print', 'raise', 'return', 'try', 'while', 'yield']

None of these have a type per se.  They're part of the
syntax, but don't behave like objects.  Neither do the
operators, unless imported as objects from the operator
module.  E.g. you can't go type(+) or type(==).

Kirby