Fredrik Lundh wrote:
Noam Raphael wrote:
Oh, and another thing - maybe "abstract" is a better name than "notimplemented"? notimplemented might suggest a method which doesn't have to be implemented - and raises NotImplementedError when it is called. What do you think?
what's the difference? no, really?
The difference would be that a derived class *must* override an "abstract" method, but has the choice of leaving a "notimplemented" method unimplemented -- one is obligate, the other optional.
Personally, all of this seems like more bother than it's worth to me. I'm perfectly willing to "struggle" along without abstract base classes enforcing an interface, and merely make do with unenforced, informal protocols... but then, I'm hardly an expert in such matters. (Or any other sort of matters, either.) ::shrug::
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