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

And here is my solution:

def not_implemented_method(func):
    from functools import wraps
    from inspect import getargspec, formatargspec

    @wraps(func)
    def wrapper(self, *args, **kwargs):
        c = self.__class__.__name__
        m = func.__name__
        a = formatargspec(*getargspec(func))
        raise NotImplementedError('\'%s\' object does not implement the method \'%s%s\'' % (c, m, a))

    return wrapper


def not_implemented_property(func):
    from functools import wraps
    from inspect import getargspec, formatargspec

    @wraps(func)
    def wrapper(self, *args, **kwargs):
        c = self.__class__.__name__
        m = func.__name__
        raise NotImplementedError('\'%s\' object does not implement the property \'%s\'' % (c, m))

    return property(wrapper, wrapper, wrapper)

It can be used as

class AbstractBase(object):
    @not_implemented_method
    def test(self):
        pass

    @not_implemented_property
    def value(self):
        pass

class Implementation(AbstractBase):
    value = None

    def __init__(self):
        self.value = 42

    def test(self):
        return True