[Python-ideas] ABC: what about the method arguments ?

Hello, ABC __subclasshook__ implementations will only check that the method is present in the class. That's the case for example in collections.Container. It will check that the __contains__ method is present but that's it. It won't check that the method has only one argument. e.g. __contains__(self, x) The problem is that the implemented method could have a different list of arguments and will eventually fail. Using inspect, we could check in __subclasshook__ that the arguments defined are the same than the ones defined in the abstractmethod.-- the name and the ordering. I can even think of a small function in ABC for that: same_signature(method1, method2) => True or False Regards Tarek -- Tarek Ziadé | http://ziade.org