looping wrote: > Peter Hansen wrote: >> Georg Brandl wrote: >> > class C(): >> > >> > is meant to be synonymous with >> > >> > class C: >> > >> > and therefore cannot create a new-style class. >> >> I think "looping" understands that, but is basically asking why anyone >> is bothering with a change that involves a part of the language that is >> effectively deprecated. In other words, class(): never used to be >> valid, so why make it valid now? >> >> -Peter > > Exact. > But I think that if we make "class C():" a synonym of "class > C(object):", it will save lot of keystrokes ;-)
If you have many classes in a module, putting __metaclass__ = type at the top can save you these keystrokes. Georg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
