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Re: Newbie: static typing?

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Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> writes:

> class AbstractVisitor(object):
>         def visit(self, element):
>                 pass

A small improvement to your code:

If you want an abstract method – that is, a method which should not be
called directly but which sub-classes should over-ride – then your
abstract method should not ‘pass’. Instead, it should ‘raise
NotImplementedError’ so this will be clear to anyone if the MRO falls
back to the abstract method.

> not_a_valid_type = "foo"
>
> model.accept(not_a_valid_type)

At this point, the ‘not_a_valid_type’ object is asked for its ‘visit’
method, and a TypeError is raised. That's good, because it informs the
person looking at the code that this object doesn't support the needed
behaviour.

This is as it's meant to be; what problem are you pointing out here?

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Newbie: static typing? Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2013-08-05 21:46 +0100
  Re: Newbie: static typing? Gary Herron <gary.herron@islandtraining.com> - 2013-08-05 14:07 -0700
    Re: Newbie: static typing? Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2013-08-06 10:05 +0100
      Re: Newbie: static typing? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2013-08-06 09:26 +0000
      Re: Newbie: static typing? Joshua Landau <joshua@landau.ws> - 2013-08-06 10:29 +0100
        Re: Newbie: static typing? Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2013-08-06 11:12 +0100
          Re: Newbie: static typing? Burak Arslan <burak.arslan@arskom.com.tr> - 2013-08-06 16:27 +0300
          Re: Newbie: static typing? Antoon Pardon <antoon.pardon@rece.vub.ac.be> - 2013-08-06 15:57 +0200
          Re: Newbie: static typing? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-08-06 15:06 +0100
          Re: Newbie: static typing? "Eric S. Johansson" <esj@harvee.org> - 2013-08-06 09:58 -0400
          Re: Newbie: static typing? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-08-06 15:38 +0100
      Easier to Ask Forgiveness than Permission (was: Newbie: static typing?) Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2013-08-07 08:23 +1000
  Re: Newbie: static typing? Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2013-08-05 17:38 -0600
  Re: Newbie: static typing? Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2013-08-06 10:35 +1000
    Re: Newbie: static typing? Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2013-08-06 10:01 +0100
      Re: Newbie: static typing? Joshua Landau <joshua@landau.ws> - 2013-08-06 10:19 +0100
        Re: Newbie: static typing? Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2013-08-06 11:07 +0100
          Re: Newbie: static typing? Rotwang <sg552@hotmail.co.uk> - 2013-08-06 15:25 +0100
          Re: Newbie: static typing? Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2013-08-07 08:34 +1000
      Re: Newbie: static typing? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-08-06 10:29 +0100
        Re: Newbie: static typing? Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2013-08-06 11:28 +0100
          Re: Newbie: static typing? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-08-06 11:50 +0100
          Re: Newbie: static typing? Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2013-08-06 18:54 -0400
          Re: Newbie: static typing? Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-08-06 19:02 -0400
          Re: Newbie: static typing? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-08-07 01:16 +0100
          RE: Newbie: static typing? "Prasad, Ramit" <ramit.prasad@jpmorgan.com.dmarc.invalid> - 2013-08-08 16:46 +0000
  Re: Newbie: static typing? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2013-08-06 05:21 +0000
    Re: Newbie: static typing? Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2013-08-06 10:04 +0100
  Re: Newbie: static typing? Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2013-08-06 15:05 +0000

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