It occurred to me that the uses of non-virtual subclass should link to a glossary entry or paragraph in abc module doc explaining what that means! I think ABCs are not a very visible part of the language, and «virtual» means other (?) things in other languages, so best to guide readers.

It occurred to me that the uses of non-virtual subclass should link to a glossary entry or paragraph in abc module doc explaining what that means! I think ABCs are not a very visible part of the language, and «virtual» means other (?) things in other languages, so best to guide readers.

I wonder if we should leave the exceptions docs alone and just mention this in https://docs.python.org/3/library/abc.html#abc.ABCMeta in the paragraph where it mentions that super() won't work - we just say that exception matching doesn't either.

It occurred to me that the uses of non-virtual subclass should link to a glossary entry or paragraph in abc module doc explaining what that means! I think ABCs are not a very visible part of the language, and «virtual» means other (?) things in other languages, so best to guide readers.

I wonder if we should leave the exceptions docs alone and just mention this in https://docs.python.org/3/library/abc.html#abc.ABCMeta in the paragraph where it mentions that super() won't work - we just say that exception matching doesn't either.

I decided to leave this in the exceptions reference (but to remove it from the tutorial) and add a link to 'abstract base class'.

I wonder if we should […] mention this in docs.python.org/3/library/abc.html#abc.ABCMeta in the paragraph where it mentions that super() won't work - we just say that exception matching doesn't either.

A small mention there wouldn’t hurt! It’s your call.

Thanks @iritkatriel for the PR 🌮🎉.. I'm working now to backport this PR to: 3.9, 3.10.
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Sorry, @iritkatriel, I could not cleanly backport this to 3.10 due to a conflict.
Please backport using cherry_picker on command line.
cherry_picker 45833b50f0ccf2abb01304c900afee05b6d01b9e 3.10

Sorry @iritkatriel, I had trouble checking out the 3.9 backport branch.
Please backport using cherry_picker on command line.
cherry_picker 45833b50f0ccf2abb01304c900afee05b6d01b9e 3.9

GH-32034 is a backport of this pull request to the 3.10 branch.

GH-32035 is a backport of this pull request to the 3.9 branch.