Switch from perl to python?

[Donn Cave]

Quoth Carl Banks <imbosol at vt.edu>:
...
| Of course it was all objects, but that didn't mean it supported object
| oriented programming.  If you wanted to create your own type of
| object, you couldn't do it (unless you wanted to write it in C), until
| the class statement came along.  If someone had asked, "Can I do
| object-oriented programming in Python?" before the class statement
| existed, the correct answer would have been "No."

When was this, before the class statement?  I didn't start using
Python until version 1.1.

thanks,

	Donn Cave, donn at drizzle.com