[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm writing Python as if it were strongly typed, never recycling a
name to hold a type other than the original type.
Names are bound to objects with types.
Is this good software engineering practice,
If you expand 'type' to 'category', then yes.
or am I missing something Pythonic?
Most Python code is or could be generic.
def sum(iterable,start):
for item in iter(iterable):
start += item
return start
Iterable can be any collection that is homogeneous with respect to the
class of start and the operation of addition. And throughout my code, I
never use 'iterable' for anything other that a
homegeneous-for-the-purpose collection. I would never, for instance,
bind it to a number.
tjr
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