On Tue, 17 Jan 2017 08:54 pm, Erik wrote: > Hi Steven, > > On 17/01/17 07:05, Steven D'Aprano wrote: >> I wish to emulate a "final" class using Python, similar to bool: > > [snip] > >> It doesn't have to be absolutely bulletproof, but anyone wanting to >> subclass my class should need to work for it, which hopefully will tell >> them that they're doing something unsupported. > > When someone brings up something like this you usually quote the > "consenting adults" argument, so I'll throw it back at you - why not > just add it to your documentation?
A very good question :-) Why am I doing this? Part of the answer is simply because I can. I want to see how far I can go to lock down the class in pure Python code. -- Steve “Cheer up,” they said, “things could be worse.” So I cheered up, and sure enough, things got worse. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
