On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 1:09 PM, Alex Hall <mehg...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 5/21/10, Ethan Furman <et...@stoneleaf.us> wrote: >> Alex Hall wrote: >>> On 5/20/10, alex23 <wuwe...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> I have since updated each ship's >>> __init__ to accept all the arguments that Craft accepts so that I can >>> support all optional arguments, >> >> Ick. Now you'll have to change several things if you make one change to >> the Craft class. Better to do it this way: >> >> [borrowing Peter's example] >> >> class Craft(object): > Curious: I do not pass Craft this "object" keyword and I have no > problems. What is it for? Just a convention, something like self being > called self?
It causes the class to be "new-style". See http://docs.python.org/reference/datamodel.html#new-style-and-classic-classes Cheers, Chris -- http://blog.rebertia.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
