What's a good way to implement something similar to a Delphi/C# interface or abstract class in Python? A class that will force all its subclasses to implement a particular set of methods?
解决方案
The simplest way to do this is to use the abstract base class implementation that has been included in Python since version 2.7.
This lets you mark a base class as abstract by using the abc.ABCMeta metaclass. You may then mark methods and properties as abstract. When you instantiate a class with the ABCMeta metaclass (or any of its subclasses) an exception will be thrown if any abstract properties or methods remain undefined in the instance.
e.g.
>>> from abc import ABCMeta, abstractmethod
>>> class Foo(object):
__metaclass__ = ABCMeta
@abstractmethod
def bar(self): pass
>>> class BadFoo(Foo):
pass
>>> BadFoo()
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
BadFoo()
TypeError: Can't instantiate abstract class BadFoo with abstract methods bar
>>> class GoodFoo(Foo):
def bar(self):
return 42
>>> GoodFoo()
>>>
The check is done only when the class is instantiated because it is perfectly legitimate to have a subclass that only implements some of the abstract methods and is therefore itself an abstract class.