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

[Aahz]

In article <1144763219.936992.219110 at g10g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
 <bearophileHUGS at lycos.com> wrote:
>
>In Python 3.0 I really hope the
>
>class C: pass
>class C(): pass
>class C(object): pass
>
>will mean the same thing. 

The BDFL made that one of the very first Pronouncements of 3.0.  ;-)

>(So in Python 2.5 the second version can be made to mean the same thing
>of the third).

Can, yes.  But should it?  The whole point of adding the () option to
classes was to ease the learning process for newbies who don't
understand why classes have a different syntax from functions.  Having

class C(): pass

behave differently from

class C: pass

would be of no benefit for that purpose.
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