[Python-Dev] class Foo(object) vs class Foo: should be clearly explained in python 2 and 3 doc

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Sun Aug 10 18:26:39 CEST 2014


On Aug 10, 2014, at 11:51 AM, Alexander Belopolsky wrote:

>This is not true.  An alternative is to put
>
>__metaclass__ = type
>
>at the top of your module to make all classes in your module new-style in
>python2.

I like this much better, and it's what I do in my own bilingual code.  It
makes it much easier to remove the unnecessary cruft when you drop the Python
2 support.

-Barry


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