Catalin Marinas wrote: > Sorry if this was previously discussed but it's something I miss in > Python. I get around this using isinstance() but it would be cleaner > to have separate functions with the same name but different argument > types. I think the idea gets quite close to the Lisp/CLOS > implementation of methods.
Take a look at PJE's generic function implementation. PyCon slides here: http://www.python.org/pycon/2005/papers/53/PyCon05Talk.html. -- Benji York -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list