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Passing arguments to `__attrs_init_subclass__`
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Hello, thanks for the great work!
My question/issue is related to __attrs_init_subclass__ that was recently added.
PEP 487 allows for passing arguments (not sure whether that's the proper name) at class definition.
The use case, for me, would be to have some sort of abstract class attributes that should be defined by concrete classes.
To make it short, reusing the example from the docs, this works
class Base:
@classmethod
def __init_subclass__(cls, foo):
cls.foo = foo
print(f"Base has been subclassed by attrs {cls} and foo={cls.foo}.")
class Derived(Base, foo=42):
pass
>>> Base has been subclassed by attrs <class '__main__.Derived'> and foo=42.
while
import attrs
class Base:
@classmethod
def __attrs_init_subclass__(cls, foo):
cls.foo = foo
print(f"Base has been subclassed by attrs {cls} and foo={cls.foo}.")
@attrs.define
class Derived(Base, foo=12):
pass
does not, throwing TypeError: Derived.__init_subclass__() takes no keyword arguments.
Would there be any workaround?
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Start at attrs' attrs_init_subclass entry point and compare its class-definition handling with the PEP 487 init_subclass example in the issue. Reproduce the @attrs.define class Derived(Base, foo=12) case and verify whether keyword arguments reach Base.attrs_init_subclass; done means the example works without TypeError or the supported workaround is documented.
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