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Python Types and Objects

Shalabh Chaturvedi

Copyright © 2005 Shalabh Chaturvedi

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About This Book

Explains different Python new-style objects, starting with <type 'type'> and <type 'object'>, and going all the way to user defined classes and instances. New-style implies Python version 2.2 and up. The system described is sometimes called the Python type system, or the object model.

This book is part of a series:

  1. Python Types and Objects [you are here]

  2. Python Attributes and Methods

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Table of Contents

Before You Begin
1. Basic Concepts
The Object Within
A Clean Slate
Relationships
2. Bring In The Objects
The First Objects
More Built-in Types
New Objects by Subtyping
New Objects by Instantiating
It's All Instantiation, Really
3. Wrap Up
The Python Objects Map
Summary
More Types to Play With
What's the Point, Anyway?
Classic Classes
Related Documentation

List of Figures

1.1. A Clean Slate
1.2. Relationships
1.3. Transitivity of Relationships
2.1. Chicken and Egg
2.2. Some Built-in Types
2.3. User Built Objects
3.1. The Python Objects Map

List of Examples

2.1. Examining <type 'object'> and <type 'type'>
2.2. There's more to <type 'object'> and <type 'type'>
2.3. Examining some built-in types
2.4. Creating new objects by subtyping
2.5. Creating new objects by instantiating
2.6. Specifying a type object while using class statement
3.1. More built-in types
3.2. Examining classic classes
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