Equivalent of NotImplementedError for fields in Python

Question

In Python 2.x when you want to mark a method as abstract, you can define it like so:

class Base:
    def foo(self):
        raise NotImplementedError(\"Subcl         


        

Answer 1

Alternate answer:

@property
def NotImplementedField(self):
    raise NotImplementedError

class a(object):
    x = NotImplementedField

class b(a):
    # x = 5
    pass

b().x
a().x

This is like Evan's, but concise and cheap--you'll only get a single instance of NotImplementedField.