finding abc's

[lars van gemerden]

On Friday, January 25, 2013 8:08:18 PM UTC+1, Peter Otten wrote:
> lars van gemerden wrote:
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> 
> 
> > Hi all,
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> > 
> 
> > i was writing a function to determine the common base class of a number
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> > classes:
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> > 
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> > def common_base(classes):
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> >     if not len(classes):
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> >         return None
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> >     common = set(classes.pop().mro())
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> >     for cls in classes:
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> >         common.intersection_update(cls.mro())
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> >     while len(common) > 1:
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> >         cls1 = common.pop()
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> >         cls2 = common.pop()
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> >         if issubclass(cls1, cls2):
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> >             common.add(cls1)
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> >         elif issubclass(cls2, cls1):
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> >             common.add(cls2)
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> >     return common.pop()
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> > 
> 
> > and ran common_base(int, float), hoping to get numbers.Number.
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> > 
> 
> > this did not work because abstract base classes are not always in the
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> > mro() of classes.
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> > 
> 
> > My question is: is there a way to obtain the abc's of a class or otherwise
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> > a way to make the function above take abc's into account (maybe via a
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> > predefined function)?
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> 
> 
> The abstract base classes may run arbitrary code to determine the subclass 
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> relationship:
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>  
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> >>> from abc import ABCMeta
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> >>> import random
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> >>> class Maybe(metaclass=ABCMeta):
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> ...     @classmethod
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> ...     def __subclasshook__(cls, C):
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> ...             print("processing", C)
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> ...             return random.choice((False, True))
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> ... 
> 
> >>> isinstance(1.1, Maybe)
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> processing <class 'float'>
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> True
> 
> >>> isinstance(1.1, Maybe)
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> True
> 
> >>> isinstance(1, Maybe)
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> processing <class 'int'>
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> False
> 
> >>> issubclass(float, Maybe)
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> True
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> 
> 
> You'd have to check every pair of classes explicitly and might still miss 
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> (for example) numbers.Number as the module may not have been imported. 
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> 
> 
> I think you are out of luck.

Thank you, interesting example. Added confirmation that trying to get the abc's is a bad idea.