What is the semantics meaning of 'object'?

[Rick Johnson]

On Sunday, June 23, 2013 11:49:42 AM UTC-5, Roy Smith wrote:

> For what it's worth, I never bother to inherit from object
> unless I know there's something I need from new style
> classes.  Undoubtedly, this creates a disturbance in The
> Force, but such is life.

Well, in Python 3000, if you don't explicitly inherit from
"object", Python (aka: Guido's Master Control Program) is
going to implicitly do it for you; so i would suggest you be
explicit for the sake of the reader.

PS: I love how people say so confidently:

  "In Python 3, inheriting from object is optional!"

Obviously they don't understand the definition of optional.