New classes in 2.2

[Aahz]

In article <un0wglgqf.fsf at online.no>,
Syver Enstad  <syver-en+usenet at online.no> wrote:
>
>I have to admit that I am excited about the revisions to pythons
>object model. I hope that the current state of affairs where there are
>two kinds of classes will eventually fade away, as it seems quite ugly
>at the time being (wouldn't want to be a new to Python just now). It
>would be sad if Python we're to develop along the lines as C++, where
>there seems to be no obvious way to do even the simplest of things (in
>my view, even though I think it's a fascinating language, my main
>language in fact until I discovered Python).

Python 3.0 will get rid of "classic" classes entirely.  Right now, we're
in a transitional phase where we're experimenting with the precise
semantics for new-style classes.  Guido hasn't said, but I'll bet that
2.4 or 2.5 will be the last of the 2.x line.
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