I recently heard about 'new-style classes'. I am very sorry if this
sounds like a newbie question, but what are they? I checked the Python
Manual but did not find anything conclusive. Could someone please
enlighten me? Thanks! 12 1591
Vaibhav wrote: I recently heard about 'new-style classes'. I am very sorry if this sounds like a newbie question, but what are they? I checked the Python Manual but did not find anything conclusive. Could someone please enlighten me? Thanks!
There's a link on the left sidebar of http://docs.python.org http://www.python.org/doc/newstyle.html
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Vaibhav wrote: I recently heard about 'new-style classes'. I am very sorry if this sounds like a newbie question, but what are they? I checked the Python Manual but did not find anything conclusive. Could someone please enlighten me? Thanks!
Older Pythons have a dichotomy between programmer-declared object
classes (from which subclasses can inherit) and the built-in object
classes (which just existed as built-in, but which could not be used as
the base of subclasses).
More recently the object hierarchy was redesigned, and now everything
inherits from object, so (if you know what you are doing) you can
implement subclasses of the built-in types such as dict, float and str.
Robert Kern has given you a link that explains the situation in detail.
regards
Steve
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On Sunday 28 August 2005 04:47 am, Vaibhav wrote: I recently heard about 'new-style classes'. I am very sorry if this sounds like a newbie question, but what are they? I checked the Python Manual but did not find anything conclusive. Could someone please enlighten me? Thanks!
"New style" classes are becoming the standard in Python, and must
always be declared as a subclass of a new style class, including built-in
classes. The simplest is "object", so the simplest newstyle class is:
class no_class(object ):
pass
as opposed to the simplest "old style" object which didn't inherit at all:
class really_no_class :
pass
I would regard the latter as deprecated now, since it basically doesn't
buy you anything to use it. The only reason to hang on to old style
classes would seem to be to avoid breaking older code that relied on
details such as the order of multiple inheritence, which have changed.
So if you're just learning, just use new style classes exclusively, and
use the documentation that applies to them. I think it's fairly non-
controversial that new style classes are an improved design.
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Terry Hancock ( hancock at anansispacework s.com )
Anansi Spaceworks http://www.anansispaceworks.com
Terry Hancock wrote: On Sunday 28 August 2005 04:47 am, Vaibhav wrote: I recently heard about 'new-style classes'. I am very sorry if this sounds like a newbie question, but what are they? I checked the Python Manual but did not find anything conclusive. Could someone please enlighten me? Thanks!
"New style" classes are becoming the standard in Python, and must always be declared as a subclass of a new style class, including built-in classes.
[Warning, advanced stuff ahead!]
That's not entirely true. New-style classes need not be derived from a new-
style class, they need to use the metaclass "type" or a derived.
So you can also declare a new-style class as
class new_class:
__metaclass__ = type
Or, if you want to switch a whole module with many classes to new-style, just set a
__metaclass__ = type
globally.
Reinhold
Vaibhav wrote: I recently heard about 'new-style classes'. I am very sorry if this sounds like a newbie question, but what are they? I checked the Python Manual but did not find anything conclusive. Could someone please enlighten me? Thanks!
In short: They have inherited "object" from somewhere. (This is
probably technically inaccurate, but it's the only thing I have seen
which defines a 'new-style class').
What it means *practically*, is that you can use properties. For a
long while I didn't really understand the point or properties, until I
needed them.
I have written a flowcharting application in Python. All objects on
the flowchat are derived from a base object which has the attribute
"text" (all objects have some form of, sometimes internal only, title).
Problem is that when some objects change text, I want to perform some
recalculations. So I wrote a "text" property, which - in its
settext-method - does all the calculations if required.
That way, the application can till use:
obj.text = 'Blah'
...and still have the chance to act on the text change.
I could have simply written a setText() method, but imho properties
are neater - but that's just a matter of opinion.
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Jan Danielsson
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Reinhold Birkenfeld wrote: Terry Hancock wrote:
On Sunday 28 August 2005 04:47 am, Vaibhav wrote:
I recently heard about 'new-style classes'. I am very sorry if this sounds like a newbie question, but what are they? I checked the Python Manual but did not find anything conclusive. Could someone please enlighten me? Thanks!
"New style" classes are becoming the standard in Python, and must always be declared as a subclass of a new style class, including built-in classes.
[Warning, advanced stuff ahead!]
That's not entirely true. New-style classes need not be derived from a new- style class, they need to use the metaclass "type" or a derived.
So you can also declare a new-style class as
class new_class: __metaclass__ = type
Or, if you want to switch a whole module with many classes to new-style, just set a
__metaclass__ = type
globally.
Reinhold
What are the pros and cons of the alternate approach?
Colin W.
Colin J. Williams wrote: I recently heard about 'new-style classes'. I am very sorry if this sounds like a newbie question, but what are they? I checked the Python Manual but did not find anything conclusive. Could someone please enlighten me? Thanks!
"New style" classes are becoming the standard in Python, and must always be declared as a subclass of a new style class, including built-in classes.
[Warning, advanced stuff ahead!]
That's not entirely true. New-style classes need not be derived from a new- style class, they need to use the metaclass "type" or a derived.
So you can also declare a new-style class as
class new_class: __metaclass__ = type
Or, if you want to switch a whole module with many classes to new-style, just set a
__metaclass__ = type
globally.
What are the pros and cons of the alternate approach?
The customary way is to use "class new_class(objec t):". There's no advantage in using
__metaclass__ except that you can set it globally for all classes in that module
(which can be confusing on its own).
My comment mostly referred to "new-style classes must be declared as a subclass of
a new-style class", which is not true.
Reinhold
On Tuesday 30 August 2005 04:09 pm, Reinhold Birkenfeld wrote: The customary way is to use "class new_class(objec t):". There's no advantage in using __metaclass__ except that you can set it globally for all classes in that module (which can be confusing on its own).
My comment mostly referred to "new-style classes must be declared as a subclass of a new-style class", which is not true.
Nonsense. "__metaclas s__" is simply an implementation detail.
We know that because it begins with "__".
Therefore it is invisible, and any delusion you may have that
you can see it is a complete non-issue.
In Python we call that encapsulation.
;-D
Cheers,
Terry
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Anansi Spaceworks http://www.anansispaceworks.com
Terry Hancock wrote: On Tuesday 30 August 2005 04:09 pm, Reinhold Birkenfeld wrote: The customary way is to use "class new_class(objec t):". There's no advantage in using __metaclass__ except that you can set it globally for all classes in that module (which can be confusing on its own).
My comment mostly referred to "new-style classes must be declared as a subclass of a new-style class", which is not true. Nonsense.
Given the rest of your post, I assume that this isn't meant as it sounds. Remember, I'm
German, so please bear with my sense of humour. ;)
"__metaclas s__" is simply an implementation detail.
We know that because it begins with "__".
Therefore it is invisible, and any delusion you may have that you can see it is a complete non-issue.
In Python we call that encapsulation.
;-D
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