I've updated the page to reflect more of Jim Jewett's comments. And to reflect more of the underlying "special methods". "Container", for instance, now has "get" (for __getattr__), as well as "len" (for __len__).
By the way, all these interfaces are already in Python; they just aren't written down anywhere in a group. Instead, they are mostly scattered through the documentation, some in the Library Reference manual, others in the Language Ref manual. (Yes, I have split the file I/O functionality into a number of separate interfaces.) Bill > Guido van Rossum wrote: > > I wonder if a bunch of well thought-out standard ABCs, applied to the > > standard data types, and perhaps more support for setting __bases__, > > wouldn't address most concerns. > > I think it would, but I don't know if we're going to get anywhere > without getting more concrete. Let's tap "the wisdom of crowds". I've > set up a Wiki page at http://wiki.python.org/moin/AbstractBaseClasses, > and spent a little time defining some ABCs and concrete classes. I'll > work on it more over the week, but feel free to pitch in and expand it. > Or create alternative versions (create a new Wiki page, and put a link > to it at the top of the existing page). > > Bill _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
