[Python-Dev] class Foo(object) vs class Foo: should be clearly explained in python 2 and 3 doc

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 11:51:51AM -0400, Alexander Belopolsky wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 8:44 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:
> 
> > It is certainly required when writing code that will behave the same in
> > version 2 and 3
> >
> 
> This is not true.  An alternative is to put
> 
> __metaclass__ = type
> 
> at the top of your module to make all classes in your module new-style in
> python2.

So it is. I forgot about that, thank you for the correction.


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Steven