Memory error due to big input file

[Chris Rebert]

On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 2:51 PM, Vilya Harvey<vilya.harvey at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/7/13 Aaron Scott <aaron.hildebrandt at gmail.com>:
>>> BTW, you should derive all your classes from something.  If nothing
>>> else, use object.
>>>   class textfile(object):
>>
>> Just out of curiousity... why is that? I've been coding in Python for
>> a long time, and I never derive my base classes. What's the advantage
>> to deriving them?
>
>    class Foo:
>
> uses the old object model.
>
>    class Foo(object):
>
> uses the new object model.
>
> See http://docs.python.org/reference/datamodel.html (specifically
> section 3.3) for details of the differences.

Note that Python 3.0 makes explicitly subclassing `object` unnecessary
since it removes old-style classes; a class that doesn't explicitly
subclass anything will implicitly subclass `object`.

Cheers,
Chris
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