Why new Python 2.5 feature "class C()" return old-style class ?

[Felipe Almeida Lessa]

Em Ter, 2006-04-11 às 06:49 -0700, looping escreveu:
> But in an other hand,
> I believe that new-style class are faster to instanciate (maybe I'm
> wrong...).

$ python2.4 -m timeit -s 'class x: pass' 'x()'
1000000 loops, best of 3: 0.435 usec per loop
$ python2.4 -m timeit -s 'class x(object): pass' 'x()'
1000000 loops, best of 3: 0.316 usec per loop

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Felipe.