Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: > Don't see it as a religious point please, but I fail to understand why > you seem so in love with old-style classes ? new-style classes are the > "official" Python object model since 2.2 (which is a few years ago now), > and the last mandatory use of them (exceptions...) disappeared with the > 2.5. AFAIK, everything you do with old-style classes can be done with > new-style ones. FWIW, old-style classes support is now only for backward > compat. So *why* insisting on using them ?
to pick a few reasons: the old-style/new-style distinction is com- pletely irrelevant for people new to the language, attribute access is slower for new-style classes (!), they'll be default in 3.0 any- way... </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
