On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 4:24 PM, Noufal Ibrahim KV <nou...@nibrahim.net.in> wrote:
> > This approach (especially with many calls) will make the API really > big. I don't remember but I've seen things with get_something, > get_something_list, get_something_dict and what not which don't really > help readability. That is true. But in my experience one of the biggest pain points in using Python has been dealing with 3rd party libraries that are poorly documented and have methods that return different types in different scenarios. It is living hell with said library is packaged and distributed as a pyd. I have come to avoid returning multiple types from a method - like the plague. All that in addition to your valid concern about exploding API. But your problem can be addressed by naming the functions after what they do - after all your consolidate function does something tangible other than just return a different type of data. _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
