why objects of old style classes are instances of 'object'

[AlFire]

Hi,

Q: from the subject, why objects of old style classes are instances of 
'object'?

 >>> class a():pass
 >>> A=a()
 >>> isinstance(A,object)

True



I would expect False


Thx,
Andy
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