Basic misunderstanding on object creation

[Mark Lawrence]

On 13/05/2015 19:42, andrew cooke wrote:
> On Wednesday, 13 May 2015 13:37:23 UTC-3, Terry Reedy  wrote:
>> On 5/13/2015 9:25 AM, andrew cooke wrote:
>>
>>> The following code worked on Python 3.2, but no longer works in 3.4.
>>
>> Bugfixes break code that depends on buggy behavior. See
>> https://bugs.python.org/issue1683368
>> Your code also fails in 2.7.9 if you inherit Foo from object.
>> The exact error messages changed for 3.4 in
>> https://bugs.python.org/issue7963
>>
>>   > Did something change,
>>
>> Obviously yes.
>
> thanks, but why does someone on this group always have to be a dick and make some smart-assed comment like this?
>

Please don't bother asking again after that response, especially to 
somebody with the stature of Terry Reedy.

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Mark Lawrence