Python 2.4.2 (#1, Oct 13 2006, 17:11:24) [GCC 4.1.0 (SUSE Linux)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> a = object() >>> a <object object at 0xb7bbd438> >>> a.spam = 1 Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? AttributeError: 'object' object has no attribute 'spam' >>> class b(object): ... pass ... >>> a = b() >>> a <__main__.b object at 0xb7b4dcac> >>> a.spam = 1 >>>
What is subclassing adding to the class here? Why can't I assign to attributes of an instance of object? -- Dale Strickland-Clark Riverhall Systems - www.riverhall.co.uk -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
