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Re: duck typing assert‏

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On 11/8/2012 12:34 PM, Andriy Kornatskyy wrote:
>
> People who come from strongly typed languages that offer interfaces
> often are confused by lack of one in Python. Python, being dynamic
> typing programming language, follows duck typing principal. It can as
> simple as this:
>
> assert looks(Foo).like(IFoo)
>
> The post below shows how programmer can assert duck typing between
> two Python classes:
>
> http://mindref.blogspot.com/2012/11/python-duck-typing-assert.html
>
> Comments or suggestions are welcome.

 From the post:
'''
So far so good. Let fix it and take a look at properties:

from wheezy.core.introspection import looks

class IFoo(object):

     def foo(self, a, b=None):
         pass

     @property
     def bar(self):
         pass


class Foo(object):

     def foo(self, a, b=None):
         pass

     def bar(self):
         pass

assert looks(Foo).like(IFoo)

Here is output:

test.py:21: UserWarning: 'bar': is not property.
   assert looks(Foo).like(IFoo)
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "test.py", line 21, in
     assert looks(Foo).like(IFoo)
AssertionError
'''

I view this check as an error. Properties are intended to be transparent 
to the user. One use of properties is to make something that is not a 
Mallard act like a Mallard. So this check breaks duck typing.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy

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Re: duck typing assert‏ Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2012-11-08 15:39 -0500
  Re: duck typing assert‏ Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-11-08 23:40 +0000
    Re: duck typing assert‏ Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2012-11-08 23:44 -0500
      Re: duck typing assert‏ Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-11-09 06:30 +0000
        Re: duck typing assert‏ Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2012-11-09 12:03 -0500

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