Remove unnecessary `object` base class in docs (#10366).

Also add a note about inheritance from `object` being default.

2 files changed, 11 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/Doc/reference/compound_stmts.rst b/Doc/reference/compound_stmts.rst
index 95d5705..1622133 100644
--- a/Doc/reference/compound_stmts.rst
+++ b/Doc/reference/compound_stmts.rst
@@ -561,7 +561,16 @@ A class definition defines a class object (see section :ref:`types`):
 A class definition is an executable statement.  The inheritance list usually
 gives a list of base classes (see :ref:`metaclasses` for more advanced uses), so
 each item in the list should evaluate to a class object which allows
-subclassing.
+subclassing.  Classes without an inheritance list inherit, by default, from the
+base class :class:`object`; hence, ::
+
+   class Foo:
+       pass
+
+is equivalent to ::
+
+   class Foo(object):
+       pass
 
 The class's suite is then executed in a new execution frame (see :ref:`naming`),
 using a newly created local namespace and the original global namespace.
diff --git a/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst b/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst
index 783259c..adedefc 100644
--- a/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst
+++ b/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst
@@ -1987,7 +1987,7 @@ to work correctly if defined on an object's type, not in the object's instance
 dictionary.  That behaviour is the reason why the following code raises an
 exception::
 
-   >>> class C(object):
+   >>> class C:
    ...     pass
    ...
    >>> c = C()