[Python-ideas] @Override decorator
Ethan Furman
ethan at stoneleaf.us
Tue Jul 19 00:29:49 EDT 2016
On 07/18/2016 09:04 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> The same argument would apply against abstractmethod... I have definitely wondered when looking over some code whether it was defining or overriding a method. But requiring people to always decorate overrides seems hard, unless we made it a property that can be enforced by a metaclass, maybe?
Do you mean something like:
def __new__(metacls, cls, bases, clsdict):
for name, attr in clsdict.items():
if callable(attr):
is_override = isinstance(attr, override)
# search for name in bases
# if found and is_override is False, raise
# or if not found and is_override is True, raise
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~Ethan~
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