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Hey, #python devs. I want to be able to enforce that methods overriding existing methods raise an error if they don't have an @override decorator. Likewise, if they have that decorator and don't override a method, it should also throw an exception.

Didn't see anything which does this, so I threw this together. https://gist.github.com/Ovid/1a1d7869b29816cc4c82d00ad42aa2fc

Am I missing something obvious?


Force validation of overridden methods in Python

Force validation of overridden methods in Python. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
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in reply to Curtis "Ovid" Poe (he/him)

Tom Ritchford
Tom Ritchford
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https://pypi.org/project/overrides/ not only provides `@override` for earlier Pythons, it also allow the parent/base class to enforce overrides, which is really the way to go as opposed to having all the derived classes enforce it individually.

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A decorator to automatically detect mismatch when overriding a method.
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in reply to Mohammad Sajid Anwar

Curtis "Ovid" Poe (he/him)
Curtis "Ovid" Poe (he/him)
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@manwar Yeah, decorators mixed with magic methods really give you a lot of flexibility in altering the language to suit your needs!
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