“Can't instantiate abstract class … with abstract methods” on class that shouldn't have any abstract method

Question

Take the following minimal example:

import abc

class FooClass(object):
  __metaclass__ = abc.ABCMeta

  @abc.abstractmethod
  def FooMethod(self):
    raise         


        

Answer 1

Well, if you must do it this way, then you could just pass a dummy dict {'FooMethod':None} as the third argument to type. This allows derived_type to satisfy ABCMeta's requirement that all abstract methods be overridden. Later on you can supply the real FooMethod:

def main():
  derived_type = type('Derived', (FooClass,), {'FooMethod':None})
  def BarOverride(self):
    print 'Hello, world!'
  setattr(derived_type, 'FooMethod', BarOverride)
  instance = derived_type()