Panos Laganakos wrote: > I want a class method to take action depending on the type of the > arguement passed to it. > > ie: > getBook(id) # get the book by ID > getBook(name) # get the book by name > ... > > Other languages use the term function/method overloading to cope with > this. And when I googled about it seems that GvR is testing it for 3.0 > inclusion or so. > > I was thinking of right after the function declaration check for the > parameter passed by isinstance() or type() and use if..elif..else to > act. > > Is this the pythonic way/best practice to apply here?
google for gnosis multimethods for a clean approach. Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
