Is this Pythonic?

[phil hunt]

On Mon, 01 Aug 2005 22:01:06 +0200, Caleb Hattingh <caleb1 at telkomsa.net> wrote:
>Peter
>
>To my mind, this kind of setup (interface class, or abstact class) is more  
>usually used in static languages to benefit polymorphism - but python is  
>dynamically typed, so in which situations would this setup be useful in a  
>python program?  You see, I expected your post to say that it wouldn't  
>even be necessary, but you didn't :)

I realise it's not necessary. I just thought it would be nice to 
document the interfaces my concrete classes will be using.

>I have spent a little effort training myself not to bother setting up  
>class hierarchies like this in python, due to the fact that I use Delphi a  
>lot at work (I do pretty much the code below to let myself know when an  
>inherited/abstract class method is being called in error).

I started doing OO stuff with Smalltalk, where it isn't necessary, 
then moved to C++, where it is, and liked it.

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