I was reading the "Pickling and inheritance are making me hurt"
thread, and the latest suggestion (as of this posting) was to do with
the __setstate__ and __getstate__ methods. They caught my attention
because I hadn't encountered them before, and it reminded me that in
the past I've never been able to very good, definitive documentation
on newstyle classes.
Well, the fact is that __[get|set]state__() have nothing to do with new style classes, but with the Pickle protocol:
http://www.python.org/doc/2.3.4/lib/pickle-inst.html
(snip) Bruno -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list