On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 11:01 AM, Rustom Mody <rustompm...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wednesday, October 29, 2014 11:49:27 AM UTC+5:30, Zachary Ware wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 1:11 AM, Rustom Mody 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 ;) > > Thanks for this much -- its helpful. > Regarding ABCs -- is there a central documentation for them: > > "What exactly is a sequence or iterable or etc protocol?" > > This information seems to be strewn all over the place but systematically.
Maybe the glossary? https://docs.python.org/3/glossary.html -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
