Emulating Final classes in Python

[Steve D'Aprano]

On Tue, 17 Jan 2017 08:54 pm, Erik wrote:

> Hi Steven,
> 
> On 17/01/17 07:05, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>> I wish to emulate a "final" class using Python, similar to bool:
> 
> [snip]
> 
>> It doesn't have to be absolutely bulletproof, but anyone wanting to
>> subclass my class should need to work for it, which hopefully will tell
>> them that they're doing something unsupported.
> 
> When someone brings up something like this you usually quote the
> "consenting adults" argument, so I'll throw it back at you - why not
> just add it to your documentation?


A very good question :-)

Why am I doing this? Part of the answer is simply because I can. I want to
see how far I can go to lock down the class in pure Python code.




-- 
Steve
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