Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> added the comment:
Raymond, I agree that this is going too far. I believe the OP has taken the position that "abstract" has only one meaning and it is defined by inspect.isabstract(). I disagree with this. An ABC is an ABC is an ABC, and it provides certain functionality through the ABCMeta metaclass: (1) forbid instantiation when at least one @abstractmethod-decorated method exist that isn't overridden, and (2) virtual subclasses. Calling out that a class with metaclass=ABCMeta is only abstract when it has at least one @abstractmethod left, over and over, is not helpful. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue46814> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
