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. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list