On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 1:11 AM, Rustom Mody <rustompm...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wednesday, October 29, 2014 11:10:06 AM UTC+5:30, Zachary Ware wrote: >> Of course, that's 3 (progressively shorter) loops to get the names of >> the ABCs of a class compared to 1 (fairly short in the first place) >> loop for a map of relationships to all available ABCs, but optimizing >> such a toy as this would just be an exercise in futility :) > > Not so. > > The charm of introspection is that the introspection > itself can be introspected. > For that to be convincing there needs to be a good combo > of clarity and succinctness. In particular why not reduce > the two functions to one? > > def get_abc_names(cls): > return [abc.__name__ for abc in abcs if issubclass(cls,abc)]
Well, it depends on what you actually want, the spec has been a bit fuzzy ;) -- Zach -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
