Python - Old vs New Style Classes

Today I am going to breif on the question

What is the difference between old style and new style classes in Python? Is there ever a reason to use old-style classes these days?

Well to begin with, the concept of old style classes are unrelated to the concept of type method.When a class is declared with old style method, the the __class__ attribute will return the class itself , but type(x) is always < type 'instance'>. This reflects the fact that all old-style instances, independently of their class, are implemented with a single built-in type, called instance.

New-style classes were introduced in Python 2.2 to unify classes and types. A new-style class neither more nor less than a user-defined type. If x is an instance of a new-style class, then type(x) is the same as x.__class__.

The major motivation for introducing new-style classes is to provide a unified object model with a full meta-model. It also has a number of immediate benefits, like the ability to subclass most built-in types, or the introduction

Python 3 only has new-style classes. No matter if you subclass from object or not, classes are new-style in Python 3. It is however recommended that you still subclass from object.