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A Counterintuitive Fact About Python Functions

Python is simple, but at times, can feel a bit tricky as well.

Avi Chawla

Mar 19, 2023

Everything in python is an object instantiated from some class. This also includes functions, but accepting this fact often feels counterintuitive at first.

Here are a few ways to verify that python functions are indeed objects.

The friction typically arises due to one's acquaintance with other programming languages like C++ and Java, which work very differently.

However, python is purely an object-oriented programming (OOP) language. You are always using OOP, probably without even realizing it.

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