avoid the redefinition of a function
Jabba Laci
jabba.laci at gmail.com
Wed Sep 12 08:56:12 EDT 2012
Hi,
I have an installer script that contains lots of little functions. It
has an interactive menu and the corresponding function is called. Over
time it grew long and when I want to add a new function, I should give
a unique name to that function. However, Python allows the
redefinition of functions:
#!/usr/bin/env python
def step_1():
print 1
def step_1():
print 2
step_1()
This will call the 2nd function. Now my functions are called step_ID
(like step_27(), step_28(), etc.). How to avoid the danger of
redefinition? Now, when I write a new function, I search for its name
to see if it's unique but there must be a better way.
Thanks,
Laszlo
P.S.: the script is here ( https://github.com/jabbalaci/jabbatron ) if
you are interested. It's made for Ubuntu.
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