Explicitly prevent the instantiation of abstract classes #202
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Closes #188
Inheriting from
ABC
(or usingABCMeta
as a metaclass) prevents the instantiation of classes that have abstract methods but not classes without abstract methods. This PR improves the error in case someone tries to instantiateElement
,AbstractLoad
, orAbstractBranch
. I used the same error type and message used byABC
. An example before and after:Before
could raise any error; currently raises:
After
always raises