[Tutor] class Knights vs class Knights(object)

[Wayne Werner]

Hi,

For class definitions I've always used

class Knights:

but I've just seen an example using:

class Knights(object):

So I did a quick little test and see this:

>>> a = Knights()
>>> b = Knights2()
>>> a
<__main__.Knights instance at 0xb7e12bec>
>>> b
<__main__.Knights2 object at 0xb7e12b2c>

and my question is what is the difference between the two? Is there a
difference other than one is an object the other is an instance? I googled
"python object vs. instance" and didn't find anything terribly useful.

Thanks,
Wayne

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