Changing calling sequence

[Martin Di Paola]

You probably want something like overload/multiple dispatch. I quick search
on PyPI yields a 'multipledispatch' package.

I never used, however.

On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 08:36:26AM -0700, Tobiah wrote:
>On 5/11/22 06:33, Michael F. Stemper wrote:
>>I have a function that I use to retrieve daily data from a
>>home-brew database. Its calling sequence is;
>>
>>def TempsOneDay( year, month, date ):
>>
>>After using it (and its friends) for a few years, I've come to
>>realize that there are times where it would be advantageous to
>>invoke it with a datetime.date as its single argument.
>
>You could just use all keyword args:
>
>def TempsOneDay(**kwargs):
>
>        if 'date' in kwargs:
>                handle_datetime(kwargs['date'])
>        elif 'year' in kwargs and 'month' in kwargs and 'day' in kwargs:
>                handle_args(kwargs['year'], kwargs['month'], kwargs['day'])
>        else:
>                raise Exception("Bad keyword args")
>
>TempsOneDay(date=datetime.datetime.now)
>
>TempsOneDay(year=2022, month=11, day=30)
>
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