Improve the displayed signature for abstract methods #13271
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Purpose
Render abstract methods with the abstractmethod prefix instead of abstract.
The three options we have are:
The second has symmetry with the decorator (
abc.abstractmethod
), though of course a method can be abstract just by raisingNotImplementedError
or documented as abstract for other reasons.The third has some symmetry with abstract properties, which are currently documented as abstract property.
References
:abstract:
option python/cpython#129311A