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I use Ruby on a daily basis and know it is a purely object oriented language. As far as I know, pure object oriented languages' distinguishable characteristic is that all variables are objects, even ints, floats, chars, etc that would be found as primitive types in other languages like Java.

Is Python the same way? I always knew Python as a general purpose object oriented/functional/procedural language that is also good for scripting, but I never thought that it could be purely OO.

Anyone have any explanations?

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  • Relevant: stackoverflow.com/questions/29099/… Commented May 8, 2014 at 21:20
  • Also informative: stackoverflow.com/q/894502/10077 Commented May 8, 2014 at 21:26
  • Whoops, didn't see the "is everything an object in python" question. I guess it didn't pop up in the "Questions that may already have your answer" section since the wording was different.. Commented May 8, 2014 at 22:30

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Yes, all values in Python are objects, including integers, floats, functions, classes, and None. I've never heard it described as a "Pure" Object-oriented language, but it seems to meet your description of one.

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