Pylint false positives

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Fri, 17 Aug 2018 08:14:02 +0200, Frank Millman wrote:

> How would you extend it without a long chain of
>     if isinstance(v, str):
>       [perform checks for str]
>     elif isinstance(v, int)
>       [perform checks for int]
>     etc
>     etc
> 
> I find that using a separate method per subclass does exactly what I
> want, and that part of my project has been working stably for some time.

You might consider using single dispatch instead:

https://docs.python.org/3/library/functools.html#functools.singledispatch





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