What is the purpose of subclassing the class "object" in Python?

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Published on 2010-04-06T21:54:50Z Indexed on 2010/04/06 22:03 UTC
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All the Python built-ins are subclasses of object and I come across many user-defined classes which are too. Why? What is the purpose of the class object? It's just an empty class, right?

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