Paul Boddie wrote: > Ilias Lazaridis wrote: ... (helpful comments) > > Have those old style classes any benefits? > > That you don't have to write the bizarre conceptual accident that is > "(object)" when declaring a "top-level" class?
This was most possibly done for back-compatibility reasons. Although introducing a change like this: def MyOldClass(oldstyle) def MyNewClass() an giving lazy developers the search&replace patterns to migrate the code would have been of benefit. Possibly something for Python 2.6. > Paul > > [1] http://www.python.org/doc/newstyle.html > [2] http://www.python.org/doc/newstyle/ this page points to nice documentation (which I would place in top of the list!!!): http://www.cafepy.com/article/python_types_and_objects/ch03.html#id833463 - "Guido's essay on new-style classes and should be your starting point." This article should _not_ be suggested as a starting point. . -- http://lazaridis.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
