[Python-ideas] Decorator to avoid a mistake

[Nick Coghlan]

On 26 November 2016 at 22:24, France3 <fleblanc50 at gmail.com> wrote:
> replace base object by default, and when all is checked for end user
> don't use the flag...
>
> Does it is possible? What do you think about?

There's no need to do this in a base class, since it can be done via
external introspection. That introspection could live in at least a
couple of different places:

- a class decorator, which checks for unmarked overrides at class
definition time
- a test utility, that given a module name, imports the module, finds
any defined classes, and checks them for unmarked overrides

All an override marker would have to do to enable that introspection
is to set a particular attribute on the method definition.

Cheers,
Nick.

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