Did class inheritance from "dict" work in early Python?

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 19:45:24 -0700, John Nagle wrote:

> Did class inheritance from "dict" work in early Python?  Or did that
> only start working when "new objects" came in?

Only with the introduction of new-style classes and "object" in version 
2.2.

http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.2.3/descrintro/#subclassing


Before that the technique of choice was to use automatic delegation, e.g. 
see the UserDict module.



-- 
Steven