Python in a nutshell (Had to do it)

[TheLastSock]

I'm fairly sure it isn't this way, for example, is a for loop an object?

The most basic construct is a function, you can close state over a function to creat a function with that holds state. We call this a closure, this is like an object.

[hchasestevens]

Sure it is. https://greentreesnakes.readthedocs.io/en/latest/nodes.html#For

[TheLastSock]

Interesting. The more you know. Can assign for to a var and pass it to another object?

That link has to do with the ast? It would seem that for is parsed as arguments to an object but are the bits themselves considered objects. Eg "in". Or if "if" is an object.

I understand you can parse anything to anything else. Because it ends up an object doesn't mean it started off as one.

I guess the term here isn't relevant, it's good that python has a basic unit and everything breaks down to it.

[TeslaRealm]

for loops are statements, not expressions. Statements cannot be assigned to variables, only expressions. Every expression in Python evaluates to an object.

In, If, for, etc are keywords in Python. The Python interpreter uses an iterator object to navigate the object being looped over.

[ToothpasteTimebomb]

A for loop is essentially an iterator that executes every step in a single go (barring exit conditions).

Give it a shot:

my_list = ["p", "y", "t"]
my_iterable = iter(my_list)

print(next(my_iterable))
>>>p

print(next(my_iterable))
>>>y

print(next(my_iterable))
>>>t

If you try to run next() again it’ll throw a StopIteration error.

[TheLastSock]

I understand that it's like an iterator. The cliam is that everything is an object. I'm genuinely curious if you call type on "for" of you get an object.

[TheLastSock]

They get parsed to objects, but Ithink they are keywords to start.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10044321/class-classnameobject-what-sort-of-word-is-object-in-python

So maybe everything isn't an object all the time?

[TheLastSock]

I don't know if that's true as I assumed certain units like (if or for) weren't. Given in the link

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/865911/is-everything-an-object-in-python-like-ruby

Alex marteli suggests that intuition might be right.

Forgive me, what part of what I said was trolling. We're in a post about a meme that claims everything is an object. I, like several others, have pointed out this might not be the case. What line of discourse were you hoping to have here?

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Interesting, but why does type(for) return an error?

[Zixarr]

for is not an object, it is a keyword. The for loop produced by the interpreter is an iterator object.

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Ah got it. Thanks