tokarenko / plain-abc

An ABC implementation without metaclass

plain-abc

An ABC implementation without metaclass.

It is a little bit annoying to have metaclass conflict, especially when trying to use ABC along with other libraries.

plain-abc provides a simple ABC implementation without metaclass.

Solving metaclass conflict without plain-abc

Here is an example of metaclass conflict and a solution to mix ABCMeta and other metaclasses.

from abc import ABC, ABCMeta, abstractmethod


class _SomeHiddenMetaclass(type):
    pass


class Base(metaclass=_SomeHiddenMetaclass):
    pass


class IFoo(ABC):
    @abstractmethod
    def foo(self): ...


# oh no, metaclass conflict!
# class Foo(Base, IFoo):
#     def foo(self): ...


# create a new metaclass for either IFoo or Foo
class NewMetaclass(_SomeHiddenMetaclass, ABCMeta):
    ...


class Foo(Base, IFoo, metaclass=NewMetaclass):
    def foo(self): ...

Usage

But you can also use plain-abc to solve the problem:

from abc import abstractmethod
from plain_abc import PlainABC


class _SomeHiddenMetaclass(type):
    pass


class Base(metaclass=_SomeHiddenMetaclass):
    pass


class IFoo(PlainABC):
    @abstractmethod
    def foo(self): ...


class Foo(Base, IFoo):
    def foo(self): ...

To skip signature checking, you can add the member names in __abc_concrete_members__ of a subclass:

class IEnum(PlainABC):
    @property
    @abstractmethod
    def foo(self) -> str:
        ...

class Foo(IEnum, Enum):
    # for python 3.10 or lower
    __abc_concrete_members__ = ('foo',)
    foo = 'foo'

assert Foo.foo.value == 'foo'