Hi All,
I am working on a revised edition of How To Think Like a Computer
Scientist,
which is going to be called Think Python. It will be published by
Cambridge
University Press, but there will still be a free version under the GNU
FDL.
You can see the latest version at thinkpython.com ; I am revising now,
so
I welcome all comments, suggestions, corrections, etc.
Anyway, I am posting to ask about the current status of new style
classes.
I am planning to present only one style in the book, because the
differences
between them don't matter for anything I am doing in the book.
The current edition of the book presents old style classes. I am
considering
switching to new style classes on the assumption that this should be
the default
choice for new programs. The drawback is that a lot of the online
documentation
still uses old style classes.
Thanks for any guidance you can provide.
Cheers,
Allen
Jun 27 '08
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<al*********@gm ail.comwrote:
>
Anyway, I am posting to ask about the current status of new style
classes. I am planning to present only one style in the book, because
the differences between them don't matter for anything I am doing in
the book.
You've got a tough use-case. When is your book supposed to be done? To
what extent to you want to make your book work with 3.x?
Overall, I'm generally in favor of presenting both (I'm opposed to
new-style-only), but in your case it sounds like just new-style would be
better.
--
Aahz (aa**@pythoncra ft.com) <* http://www.pythoncraft.com/
Need a book? Use your library!
Alan Isaac <ai****@america n.eduwrites:
>I take it from this thread that in Python 3 the following are
equivalent:
> class Test: pass
> class Test(object): pass
Arnaud Delobelle wrote:
I don't know where it is stated, but how could they *not* be
equivalent?
The most obvious way would be that the former became an illegal
syntax. But in Python 3 alpha, it is accepted, so I assume that it
will continue to be?
Cheers,
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