On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 11:09 AM, Ian Kelly <ian.g.ke...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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?
Also the documentation for the collections.abc and numbers modules: https://docs.python.org/3/library/collections.abc.html https://docs.python.org/3/library/numbers.html -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
