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Re: Potential pitfalls when going from old-style to new-style classes

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On 11/19/2014 11:14 AM, Skip Montanaro wrote:
> I discussion on the code-quality list got me thinking. Suppose I have
> an old-style class in a 2.x app:
> 
> class Foo:
>   def __init__(self):
>     blah blah blah
> 
> I still use 2.x exclusively, but anytime I run pylint over a bit of
> code and it complains that Foo is old-school, I make the obvious
> change to inherit from object. While I do this mostly to shut up
> pylint so I can focus on more serious messages, I must admit I have
> never experienced any problem changing from old-style to new-style
> classes. Under what circumstances might this be problematic?

One problem is if your class has dunder methods on the instance -- they will be ignored.

class Foo(object):
   def __init__(self):
       self.__add__ = lambda : 'whatever'

dunder methods are looked up on the class.

--
~Ethan~

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Re: Potential pitfalls when going from old-style to new-style classes Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2014-11-19 11:29 -0800

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