colour.hints.runtime_checkable

colour.hints.runtime_checkable(cls)

Mark a protocol class as a runtime protocol.

Such protocol can be used with isinstance() and issubclass(). Raise TypeError if applied to a non-protocol class. This allows a simple-minded structural check very similar to one trick ponies in collections.abc such as Iterable.

For example:

@runtime_checkable
class Closable(Protocol):
    def close(self): ...

assert isinstance(open('/some/file'), Closable)

Warning: this will check only the presence of the required methods, not their type signatures!