This list shows what methods you need to implement for your class to be \"regarded\" as Sequence: __getitem__
, __len__
, __contains__
,
Use the source, Luke!
Sequence
does not implement its own __subclasshook__
, and all the implementations of __subclasshook__
from the parents of Sequence
have checks like this:
class Iterable:
...
@classmethod
def __subclasshook__(cls, C):
if cls is Iterable: # <<<<
if _hasattr(C, "__iter__"):
return True
return NotImplemented
You can however explicitly register() your class as a Sequence
:
Sequence.register(S)
As for the reason why Sequence
does not implement __subclasshook__
, see issue 16728 (which title was initially "collections.abc.Sequence shoud provide __subclasshook__"). The issue can be summarized by saying that a sequence can be many things, depending on the needs of who uses it:
Many algorithms that require a sequence only need
__len__
and__getitem__
. [...]collections.abc.Sequence
is a much richer interface.