John Machin wrote: > Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: > > > <my humble opinion> > > Python is dynamic, and fighting against the language is IMHO a really > > bad idea. The only places where theres a real need for this kind of > > stuff are when dealing with the "outside world" (IOW : inputs and > > outputs). And then packages like formencode can do much more than mere > > type-checking > > </my humble opinion> > > Agreed. The worst case I have seen: > > An elaborate decorator (similar to the OP's) laboriously checks arg > types. That's IMHO not "consenting adults" territory. But it gets a > whole lot worse when it's applied to a method whose body is like this: > > if isinstance(.... > action_for_type1(... > # big snip > elif isinstance(... > action_typeN( ... > # no else statement
Ouch.. someone must have skipped his/her OO class... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
