Can you please tell at how many places you make the call. That is the problem with these stupid dynamic languages :-) On Sep 20, 2014 2:35 PM, "Noufal Ibrahim KV" <nou...@nibrahim.net.in> wrote:
> > I've recently come across something that I'd like some comments on. It's > a stylistic issue so not something that there's an objective answer > for. Nevertheless. > > I have a function that gets some statistics from some source and returns > it to the user as a Stats object. Let's call it get_stats. This has a > parameter `consolidate`. If consolidate is True, it will combine all the > statistics and return just one Stats object. If not, it will return a > list of Stats objects. > > The problem now is that this function sometimes returns a single thing > and some times a list. I don't like this since I have to alter my > calling code to handle this. > > I'm surprised that I've never hit this before and I'm not really sure > how to handle it. > > Comments? > > > > -- > Cordially, > Noufal > http://nibrahim.net.in > _______________________________________________ > BangPypers mailing list > BangPypers@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers > _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
