Joe Smith JoeSmith at bogusaddress.com
Sun Nov 12 23:27:05 EST 2000

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Steve Holden wrote:

> Franz GEIGER wrote:
> Correct.  One of the less-pure aspects of Python is that the built-in
> types are not first-class objects such as you build when defining your
> own classes, and cannot be used as superclasses.

Why?  Is it difficult to make the built in ones first class?

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