[issue5135] Expose simplegeneric function in functools module

[Paul Moore]

Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> added the comment:

Very good point. Registering for the standard ABCs seems like an
important use case. Unfortunately, it seems to me that ABCs simply don't
provide that capability - is there a way, for a given class, of listing
all the ABCs it's registered under? Even if the order is arbitrary,
that's OK.

Without that, I fail to see how *any* generic function implementation
("simple" or not) could support ABCs. (Excluding obviously broken
approaches such as registration-order dependent overload resolution).

The problem is that ABCs are all about isinstance testing, where generic
functions are all about *avoiding* isinstance testing. (As a compromise,
you could have a base generic function that did isinstance testing for
the sequence ABC).

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