Python - Testing an abstract base class

I am looking for ways / best practices on testing methods defined in an abstract base class. One thing I can think of directly is performing the test on all concrete subclasses of the base class, but that seems excessive at some times.

Consider this example:

import abc

class Abstract(object):

    __metaclass__ = abc.ABCMeta

    @abc.abstractproperty
    def id(self):
        return   

    @abc.abstractmethod
    def foo(self):
        print "foo"

    def bar(self):
        print "bar"

Is it possible to test bar without doing any subclassing?

As properly put by lunaryon, it is not possible. The very purpose of ABCs containing abstract methods is that they are not instantiatable as declared.

However, it is possible to create a utility function that introspects an ABC, and creates a dummy, non abstract class on the fly. This function could be called directly inside your test method/function and spare you of having to wite boiler plate code on the test file just for testing a few methods.

def concreter(abclass):
    """
    >>> import abc
    >>> class Abstract(metaclass=abc.ABCMeta):
    ...     @abc.abstractmethod
    ...     def bar(self):
    ...        return None

    >>> c = concreter(Abstract)
    >>> c.__name__
    'dummy_concrete_Abstract'
    >>> c().bar() # doctest: +ELLIPSIS
    (<abc_utils.Abstract object at 0x...>, (), {})
    """
    if not "__abstractmethods__" in abclass.__dict__:
        return abclass
    new_dict = abclass.__dict__.copy()
    for abstractmethod in abclass.__abstractmethods__:
        #replace each abc method or property with an identity function:
        new_dict[abstractmethod] = lambda x, *args, **kw: (x, args, kw)
    #creates a new class, with the overriden ABCs:
    return type("dummy_concrete_%s" % abclass.__name__, (abclass,), new_dict)