[Python-3000] PEP 3119 - Introducing Abstract Base Classes

[Bill Janssen]

Jim Jewett wrote:
> On 4/27/07, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:
> 
> > - - Attributes.  Interfaces allow you to make assertions about
> > attributes, not just methods, while ABCs necessarily cover only methods.
> 
> Why can't they have data attributes as well?

I agree with Jim.  It seems to me that documenting standard attributes
of a type is one thing that ABC's should be able to do.  Perhaps a
"@abstractattribute" decorator of some sort?  Perhaps a class decorator
"@attributes(name1, name2, ...)"?  Attributes with those names would be
automatically added to an instance, initialized to None, before the
first __init__ method would be called.

Bill