FileCookieJar has not attribute "_self_load"

[Dragos]

On Jan 17, 1:33 pm, "Gabriel Genellina" <gagsl-... at yahoo.com.ar>
wrote:
> En Sat, 17 Jan 2009 08:16:14 -0200, Dragos <dragosmoc... at gmail.com>  
> escribió:
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> > On Jan 17, 11:48 am, "Gabriel Genellina" <gagsl-... at yahoo.com.ar>
> > wrote:
> >> En Fri, 16 Jan 2009 17:19:47 -0200, escribiste en el grupo
> >> gmane.comp.python.general
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> >> > I am trying to make a testing script to load/save cookies to a file
> >> > with FileCookieJar, but it results in this error: FileCookieJar has
> >> > not attribute "_self_load"
>
> >> FileCookieJar is an abstract class, although it isn't clear at all from
> >> the documentation. (You may want to file a documentation bug  
> >> athttp://bugs.python.org)
> >> You must instantiate a specific subclass (like MozillaCookieJar), which
> >> determines the actual file format used.
>
> > Oh, thank you so much.
> > Using MozillaCookieJar works just fine.
>
> > But could you please explain what an abstract class is (or where i can
> > find documentation for this term). Thanks!
>
> Tryhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract_class
> In short, it's an incomplete class, with "holes" that subclasses must fill  
> in order to get a complete, working class (a "concrete" class, as opposed  
> to the "abstract" base).
>
> If you look at FileCookieJar, its load() method calls self._really_load  
> but no such method exists in that class nor its ancestors (this explains  
> the error you got). Subclasses of FileCookieJar *must* implement  
> _really_load to be usable.
>
> It's customary to define the method anyway, and raise NotImplementedError;  
> this serves two purposes:
> - document the expected interfase
> - error messages are more meaningful
> (FileCookieJar.save() is implemented this way; _really_load() should be  
> the same)
>
> --
> Gabriel Genellina

Thanks, got it.