class definition syntax

[Bruno Desthuilliers]

harryos a écrit :
> hi
> i have seen some class definitions like
> 
> class MyClass(object):
>     def __init__(self):
>        ....
> 
> what does the object keyword

It's not a keyword.

> inside the braces in MyClass() mean?

Answer is here:

http://docs.python.org/tut/node11.html#SECTION0011500000000000000000
http://docs.python.org/ref/class.html


> Has it got any significance?

<ironic>
Nope, why ? It just look better that way...
</ironic>

Harry, this neswgroup is - as you may have noticed by now - very newbie 
friendly. But this is not a reason for not reading *at least* the 
FineManual's tutorial.