The reason I ask is that I often (well... a couple of times anyway) see cryptic omments like :
and if you inherit from object you get all the benefits of new style classes Now I know about the advantages of inheriting from the built in types (if that's what you want to do) -but am a bit fuzzier on the 'general benefits'. I'm vaguely aware of properties.... I'll have to explore them at some point. Best Regards, Fuzzy http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list