What is the advantage of Class-Based views?

Question

I read today that Django 1.3 alpha is shipping, and the most touted new feature is the introduction of class-based views.
I\'ve read the relevant documentation, but I fi

Answer 1

This is the first I'm hearing of this -- and I like it.

The advantage I see here, honestly, is that it makes views more consistent with Django overall. Models are classes and I've always felt that views should be too. I know not everything is but views and models are the two heavily used types.

As for the technical advantage? Well, in Python everything is a class (or object?) -- so is there really a difference? Isn't it 99% syntactical sugar in the first place?