From: Tim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2003 20:01:55 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Make the classes exposed by threading.py new-style classes.  This is
X-Git-Tag: v2.3c1~203
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=59aba128a5266a944d9773f7223f25b164372146;p=python

Make the classes exposed by threading.py new-style classes.  This is
mostly for convenience and to aid debugging.
---

diff --git a/Lib/threading.py b/Lib/threading.py
index 730da675e5..81a2693349 100644
--- a/Lib/threading.py
+++ b/Lib/threading.py
@@ -24,13 +24,17 @@ ThreadError = thread.error
 del thread
 
 
-# Debug support (adapted from ihooks.py)
+# Debug support (adapted from ihooks.py).
+# All the major classes here derive from _Verbose.  We force that to
+# be a new-style class so that all the major classes here are new-style.
+# This helps debugging (type(instance) is more revealing for instances
+# of new-style classes).
 
 _VERBOSE = False
 
 if __debug__:
 
-    class _Verbose:
+    class _Verbose(object):
 
         def __init__(self, verbose=None):
             if verbose is None:
@@ -46,7 +50,7 @@ if __debug__:
 
 else:
     # Disable this when using "python -O"
-    class _Verbose:
+    class _Verbose(object):
         def __init__(self, verbose=None):
             pass
         def _note(self, *args):
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index d3761f946b..84da7572df 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -24,6 +24,9 @@ Extension modules
 Library
 -------
 
+- The classes in threading.py are now new-style classes.  That they
+  weren't before was an oversight.
+
 - SF bug 763023: fix uncaught ZeroDivisionError in difflib ratio methods
   when there are no lines.