Bill Baxter wrote: > Ok, I got another hopefully easy question: > > Why this: > class Point(object): > ... > > Instead of the style that's used in the Python tutorial in the > 'classes' chapter: > class Point: > ...
Because the former make new-style classes and the latter make old-style classes. It's not an issue of personal preference: they are somewhat different object models and there are things that old-style classes can't do. As HasTraits is also a new-style class, there's no point in using old-style classes in this tutorial. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion