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Building a formal interface with ABC

Formal interfaces offer a more enforceable contract between an interface and any classes that implement it. You'll practice creating a formal interface made up of two abstract methods, using the abc module. The ABC class and abstractmethod decorator have been imported from abc. Have fun!

This exercise is part of the course

Intermediate Object-Oriented Programming in Python

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Exercise instructions

  • Create a formal interface, called Product.
  • Define purchase() as an abstract method with parameters self and quantity, and add the pass keyword to the method body.
  • Define the update_price() abstract method, which takes parameters self and new_price.

Hands-on interactive exercise

Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.

# Create a Product interface
____ ____(____):
  
  # Define a purchase() abstract method
  ____
  def ____(____, quantity):
    ____
  
  # Create an update_price() abstract method
  ____
  def ____(self, ____):
    ____
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