In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Felipe Almeida Lessa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Em Ter, 2006-04-11 Ã s 07:17 -0700, Aahz escreveu: >> >> Can, yes. But should it? The whole point of adding the () option to >> classes was to ease the learning process for newbies who don't >> understand why classes have a different syntax from functions. Having >> >> class C(): pass >> >> behave differently from >> >> class C: pass >> >> would be of no benefit for that purpose. > >Why should a newbie use an old-style class?
Because that's the default. Because lots of existing code still uses classic classes, so you need to learn them anyway. Because you can't use new-style classes in code intended for 2.1 or earlier; because of the changes made in 2.3, I don't particularly recommend new-style classes for 2.2. Because even the second edition of _Learning Python_ (targeted at Python 2.3) doesn't cover new-style classes much, so I'm certainly not alone in believing that new-style classes are better avoided for newbies. -- Aahz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "LL YR VWL R BLNG T S"
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