Yes. That's what I meant by "the mixins are part of the contract", sorry.

On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 8:45 AM Greg Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz>
wrote:

> On 27/08/20 2:32 am, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> > The mixins are part of the contract. You are free to override them,
> > their implementation is just a helpful,default.
>
> That doesn't really answer my question. To put it another way:
> If someone wanted to implement an object that obeys the mapping
> protocol, but without inheriting from the Mapping ABC, would they
> be obliged to provide a get() method?
>
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