Raymond Hettinger added the comment: IIRC, the original motivation for ABCs was to differentiate distinct uses of __getitem__ (we forever struggled with differentiating sequences from mapping). It seems to me that this proposal is a step backwards. Other than a feeling of lightness, I don't think this proposal does anything for us. What is point of knowing an object is Subscriptable without knowing how it is to be used.
The OP has a sense that Mapping and Sequence are "too heavy" but I think the reality that useful classes almost never use __getitem__ in isolation; rather, it is part of a small constellation of methods that are typically used together. I would prefer that collections.abc continue to reflect that reality. Also, I worry that collections.abc is becoming cluttered. The existence of use ABCs like MutableMapping is being drowned-out by one-trick-ponies. We're developing an unfavorable ratio of theoretical building blocks versus the practical tools. ---------- nosy: +rhettinger _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue25988> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
