python - When to use 'raise NotImplementedError'?

Question

Is it to remind yourself and your team to implement the class correctly? I don't fully get the use of an abstract class like this:

class RectangularRoom(object):
    def __init__(self, width, height):
        raise NotImplementedError

    def cleanTileAtPosition(self, pos):
        raise NotImplementedError

    def isTileCleaned(self, m, n):
        raise NotImplementedError

Answer 1

As the documentation states ^[docs],

In user defined base classes, abstract methods should raise this exception when they require derived classes to override the method, or while the class is being developed to indicate that the real implementation still needs to be added.

Note that although the main stated use case this error is the indication of abstract methods that should be implemented on inherited classes, you can use it anyhow you'd like, like for indication of a TODO marker.