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[thin bronze]

Item is an abstract base class. You can't instantiate it.

if you want Item to be instantiable, don't use ABCs

It should just be a normal class

[sand rivet]

Nothing, it's a class meant to be inherited from

[thin bronze]

Or, if you don't want Item to be instantiable, replace the body of use with ... because there shouldn't be a default for it since it's abstract

because it's not an ABC

print("Used regular item.")

Because use is an abstractmethod. Abstractmethods require that you implement them in classes that inherit from it

You can either have a default class - a normal class with no abstract stuff, or an abstract class - which is just an interface and requires that inheriting classes implement the methods

Abstract classes are not instantiable

yes but that's really not how it's meant to be used.

[hoary geyser]

if you got an abstract base class, that has abstractmethods... any subclass is required to implement all abstract methods.
The whole point of ABCs is this enforcement.

[thin bronze]

I don't think you want an ABC or an abstractmethod

because defaults are kind of useless in this case

and you'd really never need to make an Item that has nothing about it

... does nothing there. I was suggesting that you replace the print statement with ..., but only if you were going to keep the class abstract

... = pass, by the way

So, do you want to be able to make a default Item or not?

[thin bronze]

because currently you can just remove the @abstractmethod decorator if you want to be able to inherit that default use

and then you don't need to define it in OtherItem

But, again, instantiating a plain Item doesn't make sense, so that's probably why Robin suggested making an AbstractBaseClass

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