MAINT: Remove implicit inheritance from object class (#15236)

Inheriting from object was necessary for Python 2 compatibility to use
new-style classes. In Python 3, this is unnecessary as there are no
old-style classes.

Dropping the object is more idiomatic Python.

2 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/doc/TESTS.rst.txt b/doc/TESTS.rst.txt
index 14cb28df8..9023c7100 100644
--- a/doc/TESTS.rst.txt
+++ b/doc/TESTS.rst.txt
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ that makes it hard to identify the test from the output of running the test
 suite with ``verbose=2`` (or similar verbosity setting).  Use plain comments
 (``#``) if necessary.
 
-Labeling tests 
+Labeling tests
 --------------
 
 As an alternative to ``pytest.mark.<label>``, there are a number of labels you
@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ name; thus::
       print 'doing teardown'
 
 
-  class TestMe(object):
+  class TestMe:
       def setup():
           """Class-level setup"""
           print 'doing setup'
diff --git a/doc/source/reference/random/multithreading.rst b/doc/source/reference/random/multithreading.rst
index a0a31d0ea..8502429ce 100644
--- a/doc/source/reference/random/multithreading.rst
+++ b/doc/source/reference/random/multithreading.rst
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ seed will produce the same outputs.
     import concurrent.futures
     import numpy as np
 
-    class MultithreadedRNG(object):
+    class MultithreadedRNG:
         def __init__(self, n, seed=None, threads=None):
             rg = PCG64(seed)
             if threads is None: