Hello,
I've found that abstractmethod and similar decorators "don't work" in
classes, inherited from built-in types other than object.
For example:
>>> import abc
>>> class MyBase(metaclass=abc.ABCMeta):
@abc.abstractmethod
def foo(): pass
>>> MyBase()
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<pyshell#8>", line 1, in <module>
MyBase()
TypeError: Can't instantiate abstract class MyBase with abstract methods foo
So far so good, but:
>>> class MyList(list, MyBase):
pass
>>> MyList()
[]
>>> MyList.__abstractmethods__
frozenset({'foo'})
This is unexpected, since MyList still doesn't implement foo.
Should this be considered a bug? I don't see this in documentation.
The underlying reason is that __abstractmethods__ is checked in
object_new, but built-in types typically call tp_alloc directly, thus
skipping the check.
Eugene
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