why objects of old style classes are instances of 'object'

[AlFire]

Diez B. Roggisch wrote:

> 
> But not everything is a newstyle-class:
> 
>>>> class Foo: pass
> ...
>>>> isinstance(Foo, object)
> True
>>>> isinstance(Foo, type)
> False

>>>> class Bar(object): pass
> ...
>>>> isinstance(Bar, type)
> True
>>>>                         
> 


thx for explanation. but more I look at it less and less I like the 
notation of new-style-class definition. what is an added value of adding 
"(object)" since it is already an object. Any insight?

Note: I am not a language purist, more a pragmatic who like a good style.

Andy