title: How to determine an object's value in Python
body: <p>From the Documentation</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>Every object has an identity, a type and a value.</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <ul>
  <li><code>type(obj)</code> returns the type of the object</li>
  <li><code>id(obj)</code> returns the id of the object</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>is there something that returns its value? What does the value of an object such as a user defined object represent? </p>