On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 11:40 PM, Charles T. Smith
<cts.private.ya...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Oh!
>
> Although the referenced doc says:
>
> "For compatibility reasons, classes are still old-style by default."
>
> is it true that dictionaries are by default always new-style objects?
>
> (PDB)c6 = { "abc" : 123, "def" : 456}
>
> (PDB)isinstance (c6, dict)
> True
>
> (PDB)isinstance (c6, object)
> True
I believe that's true, yes. The meaning of "by default" there is that
"class X: pass" will make an old-style class. All built-in types are
now new-style classes.
ChrisA
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