On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 5:36 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > I consider return type to be part of the function signature. The signature > of a function is the parameters it accepts and the result it returns.
It is, but there are times when it isn't significant. For instance, C++ overloaded functions are distinguished by their function signatures, but *not* including the return values (nor several other aspects). ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list