issubclass(C, Mapping) not behaving as expected

[anntzer.lee]

from collections import *
class C(object):
def __iter__(self): pass
def __contains__(self, i): pass
def __len__(self): pass
def __getitem__(self, i): pass
issubclass(C, Mapping) => False
[issubclass(C, cls) for cls in Mapping.__mro__] => [False, True, True, True, True]
i.e. C does implement Sized, Iterable and Container.

I would have expected that just as issubclass(C, Sized) checks for the presence of a "__len__" method, issubclass(C, Mapping) would check for the presence of the three methods required by each immediate superclass?

Antony

 

[Steven D'Aprano]

from collections import *
class C(object):
def __iter__(self): pass
def __contains__(self, i): pass
def __len__(self): pass
def __getitem__(self, i): pass

issubclass(C, Mapping) => False
[issubclass(C, cls) for cls in Mapping.__mro__] => [False, True, True,
True, True] i.e. C does implement Sized, Iterable and Container.

I would have expected that just as issubclass(C, Sized) checks for the
presence of a "__len__" method, issubclass(C, Mapping) would check for
the presence of the three methods required by each immediate superclass?

What makes you think it doesn't? Perhaps it does, but there are other
requirements for Mapping that are not being satisfied.

I must admit that the documentation for collections and in particular for
Mapping and MutableMapping are a bit unclear to me. But have you tried
registering your class as a Mapping explicitly?