On Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 7:02 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 28 December 2017 at 04:22, Ethan Smith <et...@ethanhs.me> wrote: > > Okay, if there is no further feedback, I will work on a > singledispatchmethod > > decorator like partialmethod. > > > > For the future perhaps, would it not be possible to tell that the passed > > argument is a descriptor/function and dispatch to the correct > > implementation, thus not needing two functions for essentially the same > > thing? > > > > It seems more straightforward to make the implementation a bit more > complex > > to provide a single, simple API to users. > > "Add 'method' to the decorator name when decorating a method" is a > pretty simple rule to remember - it's much easier than "Add > 'arg_index=1'" (which is a comparatively arbitrary adjustment that > requires a fairly in depth understanding of both the descriptor > protocol and type-based function dispatch to follow). > > And you need the change to be explicitly opt-in *somehow*, in order to > avoid breaking any existing code that relies on methods decorated with > "singledispatch" dispatching on the bound class. > Good points. I will start working on the singledispatchmethod implementation. ~>Ethan Smith > > Cheers, > Nick. > > -- > Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia >
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