SeaGL 2025

Duality of Python
2025-11-07 , Room 332

You may already know that in Python, everything is an object. You may also have learned that type is the ur-type of everything. This is also true. But these two truths seem to be in conflict with one another. Which is the more fundamental thing of Python? Join me as I explore some of Python's most fundamental built-ins and try to reconcile this question. In the end you might see how Programming at large holds many dualities and paradoxes.

A professional code twiddler. The computers work better after I’ve added code to them more often than the alternative.