What are new-style classes?

[Robert Kern]

Vaibhav wrote:
> I recently heard about 'new-style classes'. I am very sorry if this
> sounds like a newbie question, but what are they? I checked the Python
> Manual but did not find anything conclusive. Could someone please
> enlighten me? Thanks!

There's a link on the left sidebar of http://docs.python.org

http://www.python.org/doc/newstyle.html

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