I can't give much answers, I am not that expert yet. Bruno Desthuilliers: > newstyle classes can do whatever oldstyle classes > did, *and much more* (descriptors and usable > metaclasses) - and they are somewhat faster too.
In the past I have done few tests, and it seemed that new style classes are a bit slower (but the difference doesn't make much difference). Maybe for Py2.5 the situation will be different. Bye, bearophile -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list