Hi,
On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 2:34 PM, Noufal Ibrahim KV
<nou...@nibrahim.net.in> wrote:
>
> The problem now is that this function sometimes returns a single thing
> and some times a list. I don't like this since I have to alter my
> calling code to handle this.
>
I generally try to make the return type consistent. I will do
something like
if consolidated:
return [object]
else:
return the_list_of_objects
What I also do is, the object will have a consolidated flag as well.
The the code that invokes this will have to do:
stats = get_stats(consolidated = True)
...
...
for stat in stats:
if stat.consolidated:
do something.
else:
do something else
I run into this problem frequently because, there is a tool(framework)
that I write at office that is used by multiple teams. So, to keep
stuff consistent, I always return the same type and let the user
handle the result the way he/she wants. Thanks
--
Thank you
Balachandran Sivakumar
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