[Tutor] TRULY NEWBIE - MENTOR NEEDED

[bob]

At 02:41 PM 11/22/2005, mike donato wrote:
>Greetings, I am new student to programming and am experimenting with PYTHON.
> >From what I have read, seems to be a very versatile language. In the
>following excercise I am getting an error
>
>class String(str, Object):

try -> class String(str, object):

>    shift = 6
>
>     mask = ~0 << (31 - shift)
>
>     def __hash__(self):
>         result = 0
>         for c in self:
>             result = ((result & String.mask) ^
>                 result << String.shift ^ ord(c)) & sys.maxint
>         return result
>
>     # ...
>
>
>
>Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<pyshell#0>", line 11, in -toplevel-
>     class String(str, Object):
>NameError: name 'Object' is not defined
> >>>
>
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