On Thursday, October 30, 2014 10:40:42 PM UTC+5:30, Ian wrote: > On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 11:01 AM, Rustom Mody 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? > > https://docs.python.org/3/glossary.html
Ummm... I was looking for something more reference-ish, ie More prolix for ABCs And not containing random bits of unconnected data like - What is CPython - What is EAFP Maybe there's something in the bowels of the C(Python)-code? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list