[issue20897] @abstractmethod does not enforce method signatures

[Eric Snow]

Eric Snow added the comment:

Both abstractnethod and abstractproperty work by setting __isabstractmethod__ to True on the decorated function.  Then type.__new__ looks for any attributes of the current class (including inherited ones) that have __isabstractmethod__ set to True.  The signature of abstract methods is not checked/enforced.  In fact the overriding attribute doesn't even have to be a method at all.  PEP 3119 doesn't say much about this.  I expect it is the way the way it is for performance reasons.

As to SuperSubber working in Python 3, don't forget that metaclasses are declared in the class signature:

class SuperSubber(META):
    pass

Doing things like enforcing signatures is doable, but would require some other mechanism.  If you want to pursue this further I recommend you take it to the python-ideas mailing list.

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