From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange(a)redhat.com&gt; As of python >= 2.2, it is recommended that all objects inherit from the 'object' base class. We already require python >= 2.3 for libvirt for thread macro support, so we should follow this best practice. See also http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4015417/python-class-inherits-object This is motivated the patch Rich just did for libguestfs https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2013-January/msg00063.html Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange(a)redhat.com&gt; --- python/generator.py | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/python/generator.py b/python/generator.py index f853d77..a079fc5 100755 --- a/python/generator.py +++ b/python/generator.py @@ -1413,7 +1413,7 @@ def buildWrappers(module): classes.write(" %s.__init__(self, _obj=_obj)\n\n" % ( classes_ancestor[classname])) else: - classes.write("class %s:\n" % (classname)) + classes.write("class %s(object):\n" % (classname)) if classname in [ "virDomain", "virNetwork", "virInterface", "virStoragePool", "virStorageVol", "virNodeDevice", "virSecret","virStream", "virNWFilter" ]: