On Wed, 07 Aug 2019 14:39:00 -0400 Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfr...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Aug 2019 20:11:15 +0200, Manfred Lotz <ml_n...@posteo.de> > declaimed the following: > > >Hi there, > >More often I see something like this: > > > >class Myclass: > >... > > > > > >but sometimes I see > > > >class Myclass(object): > >... > > > > > >Question: which way is preferable? > > It's historical... > > Python v1.x had a form of classes. > > Python v2.x introduced "new-style" classes. "New-style" > classes /had/ to inherit from "object", as they had different > behavior from "v1.x old-style" classes which were still supported (it > would have broken too many programs). Old-style were then deprecated, > and one should have used new-style for new code. > > Python v3.x unified (removed old-style behavior differences) > and all classes inherit from "object" whether one specifies object or > not. > > Thanks a lot for the explanations. As a Python newbie (with no Pythons legacies) I only deal with Python 3. So, I will happily ignore 'object'. -- Manfred -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
