A set of tools for generic programming.
Project description
Generic is trying to be simple and easy-to-use programming library that features the following:
Multidispatching mechanisms for functions and methods (latter is not implemented yet).
Registries with different and user-defined lookup strategies.
Event system (not implemented).
Its development takes place at http://github.com/andreypopp.
Multidispatching
Generic library provides way to define function with multidispatching feature:
from generic.multidispatching import multifunction @multifunction(int, int) def add(x, y): return x + y @add.when(str, str) def add(x, y): return add(int(x), int(y))
And then in console:
>>> add(1, 2) 3 >>> add("1", "2") 3 >>> add("1", 2) Traceback ... TypeError: ...
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