Why type of 'int' is type?

Question

I am printing type(int). Please explain me about this behaviour. thanks in advance.

print(type(int))

Answer 1

int itself is a type

type(0)
#int

type(int)
#type

Your example is no different to

print(type(type(0)))

Answer 2

int IS a type name (class name), while 1 is an object of type int

And "int" would be a string.

Check:

type(1) is int
type(int) is type
type("int") is str
type(str) is type
type(type) is type

Some build-in types are int , str , float , list , set , dict ... And yes, all those names by themselves are of type type