Class inheritance in Python 3.7 dataclasses

Question

I\'m currently trying my hands on the new dataclass constructions introduced in Python 3.7. I am currently stuck on trying to do some inheritance of a parent class. It looks

Answer 1

based on Martijn Pieters solution I did the following:

1) Create a mixing implementing the post_init

from dataclasses import dataclass

no_default = object()


@dataclass
class NoDefaultAttributesPostInitMixin:

    def __post_init__(self):
        for key, value in self.__dict__.items():
            if value is no_default:
                raise TypeError(
                    f"__init__ missing 1 required argument: '{key}'"
                )

2) Then in the classes with the inheritance problem:

from src.utils import no_default, NoDefaultAttributesChild

@dataclass
class MyDataclass(DataclassWithDefaults, NoDefaultAttributesPostInitMixin):
    attr1: str = no_default

EDIT:

After a time I also find problems with this solution with mypy, the following code fix the issue.

from dataclasses import dataclass
from typing import TypeVar, Generic, Union

T = TypeVar("T")


class NoDefault(Generic[T]):
    ...


NoDefaultVar = Union[NoDefault[T], T]
no_default: NoDefault = NoDefault()


@dataclass
class NoDefaultAttributesPostInitMixin:
    def __post_init__(self):
        for key, value in self.__dict__.items():
            if value is NoDefault:
                raise TypeError(f"__init__ missing 1 required argument: '{key}'")


@dataclass
class Parent(NoDefaultAttributesPostInitMixin):
    a: str = ""

@dataclass
class Child(Foo):
    b: NoDefaultVar[str] = no_default