Times where one would use new style classes vs classic classes

[Ben Finney]

Quek <quekshuy at gmail.com> writes:

> I'd really like to know in the current context of Python 2.5,
> besides in the cases of multi-inheritance, where would I use new
> style classes? Is it a norm to use more new style classes even if I
> don't have multi-inheritance in the industry, open source projects,
> etc today?

Yes, it's the norm to use new-style classes. This makes one's classes
part of the Python type hierarchy, allowing features such as 'super',
'property', etc. to work correctly.

Use new-style classes for any new code you create. Old-style classes
are deprecated in Python 2.5 (even earlier than that I believe), and
will be removed in Python 3.0
<URL:http://wiki.python.org/moin/Python3.0>.

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Ben Finney