Types
Built-in Types
The following sections describe the standard types that are built into the interpreter.
Note
Historically (until release 2.2), Python’s built-in types have differed from user-defined types because it was not possible to use the built-in types as the basis for object-oriented inheritance. This limitation no longer exists.
The principal built-in types are numerics, sequences, mappings, files, classes, instances and exceptions.
Some operations are supported by several object types; in particular, practically all objects can be compared, tested for truth value, and converted to a string (with the repr() function or the slightly different 登录查看完整内容