[Python-Dev] Requesting that a class be a new-style class

[Guido van Rossum]

> > This is something I've typed way too many times:
> >
> > Py> class C():
> >    File "<stdin>", line 1
> >      class C():
> >              ^
> > SyntaxError: invalid syntax
> >
> > It's the asymmetry with functions that gets to me - defining a
> > function with no arguments still requires parentheses in the
> > definition statement, but defining a class with no bases requires the
> > parentheses to be omitted.

It's fine to fix this in 2.5. I guess I can add this to my list of
early oopsies -- although to the very bottom. :-)

It's *not* fine to make C() mean C(object). (We already have enough
other ways to declaring new-style classes.)

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