On Tuesday 21 March 2006 18:47, Thierry FLORAC wrote: > Of course, I'm not sure to really understand the difference between this > code and the previous one, and why this "object" inheritance is so > important (I've always thought that every Python class was automatically > inheriting from "object"). > So any kind of explanation would be really welcome !
First rule: Always inherit from ``object``!!! Now the explanation. Python has the concept of old and new style classes. When inheriting ``object``, you declare a class to be a new style class. New style classes were introduced to allow for great new features, such as meta-classes, descriptors, and (for you most importantly) properties. :-) Regards, Stephan -- Stephan Richter CBU Physics & Chemistry (B.S.) / Tufts Physics (Ph.D. student) Web2k - Web Software Design, Development and Training _______________________________________________ Zope3-users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope3-users
