[Python-Dev] Organization of ABC modules (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Mon Jan 28 04:40:15 CET 2008


Guido van Rossum wrote:

I note that at least for built-in types there will be the naming convention that concrete implementation classes are all lowercase, like int, float, list, namedtuple, defaultdict, and so on, while the ABCs all have a Capitalized[Words] name: Hashable, Number, Real, MutableMapping, etc.

That's a very good point. I also suspect that for any actual 2.6/3.0 code base I end up working with there will only be a very limited number of abstract base classes that get tested for via isinstance - so the red flag for isinstance checks would be types I didn't already recognise as being abstract base classes.

Cheers, Nick.

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