[issue16832] Expose cache validity checking support in ABCMeta

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou added the comment:

Rather than exposing the "cache token" (which looks like an implementation detail), you may allow third-party code to register a handler which will be called when an ABC's registrations are modified:

def abc_handler(abc):
    """
    Called when the concrete class registrations for ABC `abc`
    are updated.
    """

or even:

def abc_handler(abc, added, removed):
    """
    Called when the concrete class registrations for ABC `abc`
    are updated. `added` is an iterable of concrete classes which
    have been registered on the ABC, `removed` is an iterable of
    concrete classes which have been unregistered.
    """

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nosy: +pitrou

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