Recently I stumbled across an article talking about the importance of understanding type and object in Python, so thought of writing a small post on it.

Looking in-depth, one may get the impression that this is more of a chicked-egg problem, but I’ll give an overall view of this.

• An object is basically an instance of type
• type is an instance of type itself
• object is the subclass of all other objects
• A type is an instance of object itself

So in a way, you have only two objects in Python, types and non-types.

Well there you go. It wasn’t confusing now, was it ? :)