Le jeudi 23 septembre 2010 à 18:18 +0200, Tarek Ziadé a écrit :
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 don't think we should steer in the type checking direction. After all, the Python philosophy of dynamicity (dynamism?) is articulated around the idea that checking types "ahead of time" is useless. IMO, ABCs should be used more as a convention for documenting what capabilities a class claims to expose, than for type checking.
I think it goes further than documentation at this point. ABC is present and used in the stdlib, not the doc. So asking a class about its capabilities is a feature we provide for third-party code.
This feature already exists, as you mention, using issubclass() or isinstance(). What you are asking for is a different feature: check that a class has an appropriate implementation of the advertised capabilities. Traditionally, this is best left to unit testing (or other forms of test-based checking). Do you have an use case where unit testing would not be appropriate for this?
(also, you'll have a hard time checking methods with *args or **kwargs parameters)
True, but I don't expect the ABC to define abstract methods with vague arguments.
It depends on the arguments. And the implementation could definitely use *args or **kwargs arguments, especially if it acts as a proxy. Regards Antoine.