[issue5135] Expose simplegeneric function in functools module

[Walter Dörwald]

Walter Dörwald <walter at livinglogic.de> added the comment:

The patch looks fine to me. Tests pass.

I have no opinion about the name. Both "simplegeneric" and "generic" are
OK to me.

I wonder if being able to use register() directly instead of as a
decorator should be dropped.

Also IMHO the Python 2.3 backwards compatibility (__name__ isn't
setable) can be dropped.

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nosy: +doerwalter

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