handling different arguments depending on first argument

[Michael Gilfix]

  Sure. Try something like this:

     def my_func (*args):

       mode = args.pop (0)
       if mode == MODE1:
         # Do mode1 stuff with remainder of args
       elif mode == MODE2:
         # Do mode2 stuff
       else:
         raise Exception

              -- Mike

On Sat, Apr 27 @ 19:09, Paul Miller wrote:
> I've written a C function (callable from Python) that can take a
> variable number of arguments, and the arguments after the first are
> dependent on what the first was. For example, the signatures for 2
> "modes" might look like this:
> 
> 	my_func(MODE1, var1, var2, var3=None)
> 	my_func(MODE2, var1, var2=None)
> 
> 	etc.
> 
> Is it possible to handle this kind of different calling convention in
> pure Python? I'd like to write the equivalent of an "overloaded" Python
> object constructor, which takes various arguments depending on the
> first.
> -- 
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
`-> (paul)

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