Accessing parent objects

Mon Mar 26 04:02:23 EDT 2018

On 25-03-18 00:54, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>> There's nothing wrong with super() in Python 2. You just have to 
> understand what you're doing. It's still the right solution for doing 
> inheritance the right way.
>> ... 
>> The trick is to use new-style classes that inherit from object, and avoid 
> the old-style classes that don't:
>> # Good
> class Spam(object):
> ...
>> # Not so good
> class Spam:
> ...

How good is that when almost all classes in the standard library are old style classes?
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Antoon