Message 243180 - Python tracker
Just for the record, David's comment at msg158136 is apposite: > We've had trouble in the past with a conversion to new style class > breaking people's code. People are less likely to be subclassing > ZipFile, though, so it is probably OK. We just spent some time this morning fixing a bug in some internal software; the cause was precisely this unexpected change from old-style class to new-style class in a bugfix release. And indeed, we were subclassing ZipFile. :-(