[Python-Dev] One-line abstractmethod function?

[Ethan Furman]

On 12/05/2013 10:20 AM, Allen Li wrote:
>
> 90% of the time, it ends up looking something like this:
>
> class Foo(metaclass=abc.ABCMeta):
>
>      @abc.abstractmethod
>      def f1(self):
>          raise NotImplementedError
>
>      @staticmethod
>      @abc.abstractmethod
>      def f2(arg1):
>          raise NotImplementedError

I think we're getting sidetracked by the `raise NotImplementedError` -- why do you have that line in there?  If I 
understand the ABCs correctly a class that does *not* have concrete methods to replace the abstract methods will raise 
an exception at class creation time, so why do you need the `raise NotImplementedError`?  It would only ever happen on a 
super() type of call.

Having said all that, I would hope that any abstract class I had to implement would have good doc strings, and the 
multi-line format is much easier to read.

-1 on the one-liner.

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~Ethan~