[Python-Dev] Supporting functools.singledispatch with classes.

[Ivan Levkivskyi]

On 26 December 2017 at 01:41, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 25 December 2017 at 12:32, Ethan Smith <ethan at ethanhs.me> wrote:
> > So at the moment, I don't think it is possible to implement
> singledispatch
> > on classmethod or staticmethod decorated functions.
>
> I've posted this to the PR, but adding it here as well: I think this
> is a situation very similar to the case with functools.partialmethod,
> where you're going to need to write a separate
> functools.singledispatchmethod class that's aware of the descriptor
> protocol, rather than trying to add the functionality directly to
> functools.singledispatch.
>

I agree with Nick here. Adding a separate decorator looks like the right
approach,
especially taking into account the precedent of @partialmethod.

--
Ivan
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