[Python-Dev] Mini-Pep: Simplifying the Integral ABC (original) (raw)

Andrew McNabb amcnabb at mcnabbs.org
Thu Jun 5 00:24:17 CEST 2008

On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 12:57 PM, Raymond Hettinger <python at rcn.com> wrote:

Not sure how to generate more discussion. It seems self-evident that an abc with lots of abstract methods is inherently less usable and that bitwise operations go beyond the basic notion of "integeriness". Requiring all those methods to be defined makes it harder to write a compliant class. Other than int/long, no currently existing type matches-up with Integral. Does anyone care about this? Hopefully, some discussion gets generated. But if no one cares, I'll happily drop it.

I'm just responding out of duty to add more discussion on the topic.

I think I agree with Raymond on the basic principle that simple ABC's are easier to use than simple ones. Anyway, it's hard to add anything to the discussion when I haven't seen many applications of the Integral ABC, but in principle, but if I had to vote I'd say that the bitwise operators aren't particularly integery.

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