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Other Types in Python
Besides the core objects studied in this part of the book, and the program-unit objects such as functions, modules, and classes that we’ll meet later, a typical Python installation has dozens of additional object types available as linked-in C extensions or Python classes—regular expression objects, DBM files, GUI widgets, network sockets, and so on.
The main difference between these extra tools and the built-in types we’ve seen so far is that the built-ins provide special language creation syntax for their objects (e.g., 4 for an integer, [1,2] for a list, the open function for files, and def and lambda for functions). Other tools are generally made available in standard library modules that you must first import to use. For instance, to make a regular expression object, you import re and call re.compile(). See Python’s library reference for a comprehensive guide to all the tools available to Python programs.
