Why the type of a class is <class 'type'>

Question

I was checking type of every thing in python. But I could not understand why the type of a class is <class 'type'>

class Hello:
    pass


c = Hello
print('type check one: ', type(c))
print('type check two: ', type(Hello))

output:- type check one: <class 'type'> type check two: <class 'type'>

Answer 1

type is a metaclass in Python

A metaclass is just a class of a class, as explained here.

Because you did not specify what type of object c was, and instead said it is just a Hello class, Hello inherits from type, thus making it of a type class.