[Tutor] New-style classes

[Lloyd Kvam]

One more comment.  A "classic" class has a base class defined as:
	class Base:

A newstyle class has a base of object
	class Base(object):
or one of the other built in types (e.g. dict or list).  I have not
encountered any cases where code was broken my switching to the new
style classes.

Lloyd Kvam wrote:

> http://www.python.org/doc/2.2.1/whatsnew/
> What's New in Python 2.2
> 
> http://www.python.org/2.2/descrintro.html
> Unifying types and classes in Python 2.2
> 
> The first link is by amk (just in case he's not watching the list).
> The second is by GvR and will probably make more sense after reading
> the section of amk's document dealing with the new classes.
> 
> 
> Daniel Ehrenberg wrote:
> 
>> I have heard about new-style classes, and I'm afraid
>> I'm using old-style classes (since I'm learning from a
>> book made for 2.0). Could somebody please explain what
>> new-style classes are and their benefit over old-style
>> classes?
>> Daniel Ehrenberg
>>
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