[Python-ideas] RFC: Multiple Dispatch

[Guido van Rossum]

Have you written anything significant that you're distributing with it? Has
anyone else?

Are there good uses of singledispatch in the wild even?


On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 8:33 AM, Matthew Rocklin <mrocklin at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I curate the multipledispatch library on PyPI.  I believe that it is a
> natural continuation of singledispatch outlined in PEP 443 and included in
> functools 3.4.
>
> For those unaware, dispatching correctly and unambiguously on multiple
> inputs is a somewhat more complex problem than on a single input.  I
> believe the approach taken in multipledispatch is fairly robust.
>
> I wrote a blogpost about MD a while ago:
> http://matthewrocklin.com/blog/work/2014/02/25/Multiple-Dispatch/
>
> The docs pages live here:
> http://multiple-dispatch.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
>
> And the github page lives here:
> https://github.com/mrocklin/multipledispatch
>
> Recommendations for improvement welcome.  Thoughts on whether or not this
> is appropriate to include in the standard library also welcome.
>
> Best,
> -Matthew Rocklin
>
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