On 8/23/21 10:21 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Mon, Aug 23, 2021 at 09:10:49PM -0500, Will Bradley wrote: >> Don't know if this is already a PEP, but I'd love to see something like this >> <https://www.codementor.io/@arpitbhayani/overload-functions-in-python-13e32ahzqt> >> in >> Python— a decorator @overload that creates multiple copies of >> functions/methods based on their arguments' types. (This is much narrower >> in scope than PEP 3124, before anyone asks.) > Do you mean something like functools.singledispatch? > > https://docs.python.org/3/library/functools.html#functools.singledispatch > > If not, how are they different? > You may also be interested in a package I wrote for doing this kind of thing:
https://pypi.org/project/signature-dispatch/ The differences between `functools.singledispatch`, the linked article, and my package are: * `functools.singledispatch` considers only the type of the first argument. * The linked article only considers the number of positional arguments. * My package considers the entire signature, including type annotations. -Kale _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/33BH42IOYTTXX5G3EDCYQPTTYDET7JNM/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
