On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 11:14 AM, Skip Montanaro <skip.montan...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> I discussion on the code-quality list got me thinking. Suppose I have
> an old-style class in a 2.x app:
>
> class Foo:
> def __init__(self):
> blah blah blah
>
> I still use 2.x exclusively, but anytime I run pylint over a bit of
> code and it complains that Foo is old-school, I make the obvious
> change to inherit from object. While I do this mostly to shut up
> pylint so I can focus on more serious messages, I must admit I have
> never experienced any problem changing from old-style to new-style
> classes. Under what circumstances might this be problematic?
>
Under most common cases, its as trivial as just subclassing object, however
there are some oddities:
- The main case errors may pop up is with multiple inheritance (MRO was
changed).
- If you are accessing or have defined magic methods.
- For example, overriding __call__ on a specific instance will no
work with new-style classes, but will work with old-style
classes. Defining
it on the class (the common case) works the same in both cases.
- A number of new magic properties were added, __slots__ and __mro__.
So if those are being defined (they shouldn't - all dunder names are
reserved by Python) it could change behavior oddly.
It looks like
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/54867/old-style-and-new-style-classes-in-python
has some decent answers to your question.
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