Re: [Python-ideas] Python Users Aren't Perfect

Greg Ewing wrote:

Ned Batchelder wrote:

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Finish that foo function definition: it will *have* to have "for a in args:"

Not necessarily. It might be something like this:

def foo(*args): if len(args) == 2: x, y = args fizzle2d(x, y) else: x, y, z = args fizzle3d(x, y, z)

In other words, it might be what is effectively an overloaded function with a number of different possible calling signatures. Once you've decided which signature is being invoked, each member of the argument tuple takes on a specific role.

Thanks, Greg -- this is pretty much what I meant about dynamic structs. :)

~Ethan~