[Python-ideas] ABC: what about the method arguments ?

[Daniel Stutzbach]

On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 9:37 AM, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek at gmail.com> wrote:

> The problem is that the implemented method could have a different list
> of arguments and will eventually fail.


A slightly different argument list is okay if it is more permissive.  For
example, the collections.Sequence ABC defines a count method with one
parameter.  However, the list implementation's count method takes one
mandatory parameter plus two optional parameters.  I'm not sure how easy it
would be to detect a valid but more general signature.

You might be interested in the related Issue 9731 ("Add ABCMeta.has_methods
and tests that use it").

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