Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 443 - Single-dispatch generic functions

[Ethan Furman]

On 05/23/2013 11:13 AM, Éric Araujo wrote:

Thanks for writing this PEP.  Blessing one implementation for the stdlib
and one official backport will make programmers’ lives a bit easier :)

   >>> @fun.register(int)
   ... def _(arg, verbose=False):
   ...     if verbose:
   ...         print("Strength in numbers, eh?", end=" ")
   ...     print(arg)
   ...

Does this work if the implementation function is called like the first
decorated function? (I don’t know the proper terminology) e.g.

     >>> @fun.register(int)
     ... def fun(arg, verbose=False):
     ...     if verbose:
     ...         print("Strength in numbers, eh?", end=" ")
     ...     print(arg)

The precedent is 2.6+ properties, where prop.setter mutates and returns
the property object, which then overwrites the previous name in the
class dictionary.

Actually, properties return new instances:

--> class Test(object):
...     _temp = 'fleeting'
...     @property
...     def temp(self):
...         return self._temp
...     @temp.setter
...     def new_temp(self, value):
...         self._temp = value
...

--> id(Test.temp)
30245384

--> id(Test.new_temp)
30246352

--> Test.temp is Test.new_temp
False

--
~Ethan~
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