Yes. That's what I meant by "the mixins are part of the contract", sorry.
On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 8:45 AM Greg Ewing
On 27/08/20 2:32 am, Guido van Rossum wrote:
The mixins are part of the contract. You are free to override them, their implementation is just a helpful,default.
That doesn't really answer my question. To put it another way: If someone wanted to implement an object that obeys the mapping protocol, but without inheriting from the Mapping ABC, would they be obliged to provide a get() method?
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