> You may also be interested in a package I wrote for doing this kind of thing:
> https://pypi.org/project/signature-dispatch/ After reading about this project, I'm interested in the idea of callable modules in Python. However, that's another issue for another day and another person. On Wed, Aug 25, 2021, 6:46 PM Finn Mason <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Don't know if this is already a PEP, but I'd love to see something like > this > >> < > https://www.codementor.io/@arpitbhayani/overload-functions-in-python-13e32ahzqt > > > >> in > >> Python— a decorator @overload that creates multiple copies of > >> functions/methods based on their arguments' types. (This is much > narrower > >> in scope than PEP 3124, before anyone asks.) > > Do you mean something like functools.singledispatch? > > It seems there are already tools for overloading. In terms of type hints, > there's @typing.overload. > From what I can tell, overloading the implementation is generally frowned > upon in Python. > I'd like to know how your idea is different from PEP 3124. Could you > please explain? >
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