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I tried to test your patch, but the build dies with this error:
Fatal Python error: Py_Initialize: can't initialize sys standard streams
Traceback (most recent call last):
 File ".../cpython/Lib/io.py", line 60, in <module>
Aborted
I don't know why is this, but I get this error consistently with your patch, and no error without the patch.
On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 22:13, <dsdale24@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thank you for the feedback. The reason I suggested deprecating
> abstractproperty is that I think it is essentially broken. Subclasses
> have to redeclare the entire property, and if they forget to declare
> the setter for what is supposed to be a read/write property, there is 
> no way to catch it. With the new approach, it is possible to ensure
> that all the required features of the property have been implemented.
...
> On 2011年03月19日 21:36:09, durban wrote:
> > I don't think abstractproperty should be deprecated. It is still
> > perfectly good to define a read-only abstract property (with one 
> > decorator instead of two).
>
> Zen of python.
I'm guessing you're referring to "There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it." That is a good point. But currently the one way to:
- create an abstract static method: @abstractstaticmethod
- create an abstract class method: @abstractclassmethod
- create an abstract property: @abstractproperty (as you pointed out, this has some problems)
With your proposed change the one way to:
- create an abstract static method: @abstractstaticmethod
- create an abstract class method: @abstractclassmethod
- create an abstract property: @abstractmethod + @property
This is not a very good API.
Note, that a similar thing could be done for class/staticmethod, and then using @abstractmethod + @classmethod would be possible, and the API would be more consistent. But it wasn't done because Guido objected it (see issue5867).
> This is the part where I am weak. Can you point me to documentation? 
> Why is an exception check necessary? Do PyObject_IsTrue and Py_DECREF 
> not know what to do when passed NULL?
http://docs.python.org/dev/py3k/c-api/object.html#PyObject_GetAttrString
If a Python API function returns NULL, that usually means that an exception was raised. If you don't want the exception to propagate, you should call PyErr_Clear. And I think it is not a good idea to call a function with NULL, unless the docs explicitly say that it can be passed NULL.