And that's how I ended up on mastodon

@elyn Python types:

"Everything's an object, right"

"OK, sure"

"So type, the type of types, is a subclass of object"

"OK, ..."

"And object, since it's a type, is an instance of type"

"... wat?"

(the amount of "lying to computers" involved in starting a Python interpreter is genuinely fun, for a given definition of "fun")

@ancoghlan that's insane

@elyn @ancoghlan well you started with the Lovecraftian scenery. Welcome to cosmic horror of comp...oh god

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