Do we still need to inherit from "object" to create new-style classes?

[Ben Finney]

John Salerno <johnjsal at gmail.com> writes:

> I can't quite seem to find the answer to this anywhere. The book I'm
> reading right now was written for Python 3.1 and doesn't use (object),
> so I'm thinking that was just a way to force new-style classes in 2.x
> and is no longer necessary in 3.x. Is that right?

Not as far as I know. Python 2.x classes will not inherit from anything
unless you make them do so explicitly.

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