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Re: Do we still need to inherit from "object" to create new-style classes?

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On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 6:26 PM, John Salerno <johnjsal@gmail.com> wrote:
> I can't quite seem to find the answer to this anywhere. The book I'm
> reading right now was written for Python 3.1 and doesn't use (object),
> so I'm thinking that was just a way to force new-style classes in 2.x
> and is no longer necessary in 3.x. Is that right?
>
> (The documentation doesn't mention object anymore, but elsewhere on
> the Python website it says the documentation hasn't been updated for
> new-style classes yet, hence my confusion.)
>
> Thanks.

3.x got rid of old-style classes altogether, so you are correct-
there's no need to explicitly subclass object.

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Do we still need to inherit from "object" to create new-style classes? John Salerno <johnjsal@gmail.com> - 2011-06-20 18:26 -0700
  Re: Do we still need to inherit from "object" to create new-style classes? Benjamin Kaplan <benjamin.kaplan@case.edu> - 2011-06-20 18:33 -0700
    Re: Do we still need to inherit from "object" to create new-style classes? John Salerno <johnjsal@gmail.com> - 2011-06-20 19:13 -0700
  Re: Do we still need to inherit from "object" to create new-style classes? Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2011-06-21 12:41 +1000
  Re: Do we still need to inherit from "object" to create new-style classes? Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2011-06-21 13:30 -0400

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