Issue 2266: Missing documentation about old/new-style classes (original) (raw)

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Created on 2008-03-10 16:45 by Yinon, last changed 2022-04-11 14:56 by admin. This issue is now closed.

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msg63445 - (view)	Author: Yinon Ehrlich (Yinon)	Date: 2008-03-10 16:45
http://docs.python.org/tut/node11.html talks about old/new style classes. But there is no any explanation what it is. The same for http://docs.python.org/ref/node33.html My suggestion: refer to http://wiki.python.org/moin/NewClassVsClassicClass
msg84050 - (view)	Author: R. David Murray (r.david.murray) *	Date: 2009-03-24 01:54
I think this can be closed as 'out of date'. The language reference chapter has a section on old and new style classes, and in the tutorial section the reference to 'new style class' is hyperlinked to a glossary entry that in turn contains a pointer to that language reference section.
msg84621 - (view)	Author: Yinon Ehrlich (Yinon)	Date: 2009-03-30 19:20
* http://docs.python.org/reference/datamodel.html covers new style and old style quite well. However, for the sake of the reader who reads it top-down, it will be nice to add internal cross references (to http://docs.python.org/reference/datamodel.html#new-style-and-classic-classes) * http://docs.python.org/tutorial/classes.html mentions old-style without any hint to the reader what it's. I suggest to add a link to http://docs.python.org/reference/datamodel.html#new-style-and-classic-classes.
msg84889 - (view)	Author: Georg Brandl (georg.brandl) *	Date: 2009-03-31 20:23
The new docs already have glossary entries that point to the datamodel doc.