Old-style and new-style classes in Python 2.7 [duplicate]
Always subclass "object". Those are new style classes.
You are ready for Python 3 that way.
Things like
.super()work properly that way, should you need them.
You should always use new style classes. New-style classes are part of an effort to unify built-in types and user-defined classes in the Python programming language.
New style classes have several things to offer such as:
- Properties: Attributes that are defined by get/set methods
- Static methods and class methods
- The new getattribute hook, which, unlike getattr, is calledfor every attribute access, not just when the attribute can’t befound in the instance
- Descriptors: A protocol to define the behavior of attribute accessthrough objects
- Overriding the constructor new
- Metaclasses