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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by wasabi@feddit.de to c/python@programming.dev

I often find myself defining function args with list[SomeClass] type and think "do I really care that it's a list? No, tuple or Generator is fine, too". I then tend to use Iterable[SomeClass] or Collection[SomeClass]. But when it comes to str, I really don't like that solution, because if you have this function:

def foo(bar: Collection[str]) -> None:
    pass

Then calling foo("hello") is fine, too, because "hello" is a collection of strings with length 1, which would not be fine if I just used list[str] in the first place. What would you do in a situation like this?

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[-] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 3 points 7 months ago

Kids these days and their type hinting. Back in my day, all objects were ducks, and we liked it!

[-] wasabi@feddit.de 3 points 7 months ago
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