bug#72298: Should python-mode-abbrev-table declare :parents python-base-mode-abbrev-table?

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Ship Mints <shipmints@gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2024 09:53:15 -0400
> 
> Greetings. Curious if I'm barking up the wrong tree with this assessment...
> 
> On Thu, Jul 25, 2024 at 2:33 PM Ship Mints <shipmints@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>  An example of a personal hack to make this work could be to add something like this to a
>  python-mode-hook:
> 
>  (if (derived-mode-p 'python-base-mode)
>    (setq local-abbrev-table python-base-mode-abbrev-table))
> 
>  On Thu, Jul 25, 2024 at 2:15 PM Ship Mints <shipmints@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>  I was expecting that python-base-mode-abbrev-table would apply to both python-mode and
>  python-ts-mode buffers. python-ts-mode doesn't derive from python-mode so the abbrev tables
>  aren't shared by default. Unless I'm missing something, using a base table doesn't work for me.
> 
>  (define-abbrev-table 'python-mode-abbrev-table ()
>    "Abbrev table for Python mode."
>  ;; should this:
>    :parents (list python-mode-skeleton-abbrev-table))
>  ;; be defined thusly?
>    :parents (list python-base-mode-abbrev-table python-mode-skeleton-abbrev-table))
> 
>  I tried to find guidance on this outside of hacking abbrev tables manually to be shared. Perhaps
>  other people have the same expectation.

kobarity, any comments?