On 18 June 2017 at 07:27, Mital Ashok via Python-ideas
Right now, an example for single dispatch would be:
from functools import singledispatch
@singledispatch def fun(arg, verbose=True): if verbose: print("Let me just say,", end=" ") print(arg)
@fun.register(int) def _(arg, verbose=True): if verbose: print("Strength in numbers, eh?", end=" ") print(arg)
@fun.register(list) def _(arg, verbose=True): if verbose: print("Enumerate this:") for i, elem in enumerate(arg): print(i, elem)
But this makes a useless _ function, that should either be deleted or ignored.
Don't do that, give the overloads meaningful names that your test suite can then use to check that they do the right thing independently of the dispatch process. Even if you're not doing unit testing at that level, the names will also show up in exception tracebacks and other forms of introspection (e.g. process state dumps), and seeing descriptive names like "_fun_for_int" and "_fun_for_list" is *significantly* more informative than seeing multiple distinct functions all called "_" or "__". Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia