should I put old or new style classes in my book?

Bruno Desthuilliers bruno.42.desthuilliers at websiteburo.invalid
Fri May 30 07:56:50 EDT 2008


allendowney at gmail.com a écrit :
> Hi All,
> 
> I am working on a revised edition of How To Think Like a Computer
> Scientist,
> which is going to be called Think Python.  It will be published by
> Cambridge
> University Press, but there will still be a free version under the GNU
> FDL.
> 
> You can see the latest version at thinkpython.com; I am revising now,
> so
> I welcome all comments, suggestions, corrections, etc.
> 
> Anyway, I am posting to ask about the current status of new style
> classes.
> I am planning to present only one style in the book, because the
> differences
> between them don't matter for anything I am doing in the book.
 >
> The current edition of the book presents old style classes.  I am
> considering
> switching to new style classes on the assumption that this should be
> the default
> choice for new programs.  The drawback is that a lot of the online
> documentation
> still uses old style classes.
> 
> Thanks for any guidance you can provide.

Same remarks as anyone else that answered so far: definitively use 
new-style classes, and just add a note about the old-style syntax.




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