What is object()

[James Henderson]

On Thursday 22 January 2004 3:44 pm, Hameed Khan wrote:
> hi,
>   i was reading library refrence manual. there i found
> object() function. they says in library refrence that
>         "Return a new featureless object. object() is
> a base for all new style classes. It has the methods
> that are common to all instances of new style
> classes."
>
> My questions are whats the use of this function and
> the object returned by it? and what are new style
> classes?.
>
> Thanks,
> Hameed Khan

Roughly, the purpose of object is that inheriting from it makes a new-style 
class.  For a description of new-style classes see:

http://www.python.org/2.2.3/descrintro.html

and maybe also:

http://users.rcn.com/python/download/Descriptor.htm

Also see the ongoing argument about the definition of a new-style class on 
python-dev under the thread "Hot-To Guide for Descriptors - Nits! :-)"

James
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