I'm confused by the concepts of old-style vs new-style classes, I've read most of the documents I found about this but it doesn't "click". Probably because I wasn't around before 2.2.
Anyway, the reason for new style classes are to make the whole type/object thing work better together. There are a number of new features etc. I think my problem is when new-style classes are used, at first I thought that all classes become new-style classes when I was using 2.4, but if I understand things correctly I need to subclass an existing class (assuming that this class does the same) for it to become a new-style class. Have I understood this correctly? If I have, then I've got the following question: ================================================ Then I could write: class Foo( Object ) to make a new-style class, and class FooA to make an old-style class. What is the reason for allowing both styles? (backwards compatibility??) When I make my own classes should they always be new-style objects or are there reasons for using old-style object? ================================================ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
