diff -r 012be286b2c4 -r c5f36402daad mercurial/commands.py
--- a/mercurial/commands.py	Wed Jun 10 03:20:20 2009 +0200
+++ b/mercurial/commands.py	Wed Jun 10 15:10:21 2009 +0200
@@ -2697,7 +2697,7 @@
         raise error.RepoError(_("There is no Mercurial repository here"
                                 " (.hg not found)"))
 
-    class service:
+    class service(object):
         def init(self):
             util.set_signal_handler()
             self.httpd = server.create_server(baseui, repo)