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Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 16:21:32 -0500
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On 1/17/2014 7:25 AM, Jean-Michel Pichavant wrote:

>>>> '''The default top superclass for all Python classes.

>>> http://bugs.python.org/issue20285

> The issue is tagged 2.7. Is object the superclass of all classes in 2.7 ?

2.7 should say 'all new-style classes'.
Thanks for noticing and reporting.

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Terry Jan Reedy