> What is the reason for allowing both styles? (backwards compatibility??)
yes. > > When I make my own classes should they always be new-style objects or are > there reasons for using old-style object? No, use new style if you can - except from the rare cases where above mentioned backwards compatibilty is needed. E.g. exceptions have to be old-style, and for example omniorb needs old-style classes for corba implementations. Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
