On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 2:56 PM, Emile van Sebille <em...@fenx.com> wrote:
> I've been lightly scanning and following the PEP 484 discussion, and one
> point I don't think I've seen mentioned is how you might hint a function
> that accepts different types, eg:
>
> def adder(a,b): return a+b
>
> This is one of the pythonic idioms that help with polymorphic functions. Is
> there a proposal for providing hinting for these?
You can use TypeVar for that.
T = TypeVar('T')
def adder(a: T, b: T) -> T:
return a + b
I'm not thrilled about having to actually declare T in this sort of
situation, but I don't have a better proposal.
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