Python's super(), abstract base classes, and NotImplementedError

Question

Abstract base classes can still be handy in Python. In writing an abstract base class where I want every subclass to have, say, a spam() method, I want to write som

Answer 1

Do not write all that code. Simple inspection of the abstract class can save you writing all that code.

If the method is abstract, the concrete subclass does not call super.

If the method is concrete, the concrete subclass does call super.