[Python-ideas] Revisiting Immutable Mappings

[Chris Barker]

On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 10:12 AM, Sven R. Kunze <srkunze at mail.de> wrote:

> On 18.10.18 18:49, Anders Hovmöller wrote:
>
>> If it's AND, shouldn't it be "hasinterfaces" (notice the s!)?
>
>
yeah, that would make sense.

Is someone proposing something here? The point I was making, is in the case
of ABCs:

issubclass(a_class, an_abc)

isn't "Really" testing a subclass, but really an interface. That is - the
ABC exists solely to define an interface, not provide any functionality
(though there is some in there), and you can, in fact, use ABCs to provide
a way to check a duck-typed class that isn't an actual subclass.

So do we need a new function that makes that clear? would it functionally
be an different than issubclass with an ABC?

I honestly don't know.

Though an easy way to get the "and" behaviour -- i.e. interfaceS would be
nice.

-CHB


To be sure, we are on the same page here: "interface" refers to a set of
> attributes of the object in question, does it?
>
> E.g. like the __iter__ iterface. I usually don't care about the actual
> inheritance hierarchy but care about functionality.
>
> One could also imagine that isinstance and issubclass taking a keyword
>> argument for the logical operator. Maybe just something as simple as
>> "isinstance(foo, (a, b), all=True)"
>>
>
> Does AND even make sense for isinstance/issubclass?
>
> Cheers,
> Sven
>
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