Bug#969766: ITP: python-multipledispatch -- multiple dispatch in Python
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Christian Kastner <ckk@debian.org>
* Package name : python-multipledispatch
Version : 0.6.0
Upstream Author : Matthew Rocklin
* URL : https://github.com/mrocklin/multipledispatch/
* License : BSD-3-clause
Programming Lang: Python
Description : multiple dispatch in Python
This implementation of multiple dispatch is efficient, mostly complete,
performs static analysis to avoid conflicts, and provides optional namespace
support. It looks good too.
What this does:
* Dispatches on all non-keyword arguments
* Supports inheritance
* Supports instance methods
* Supports union types, e.g. (int, float)
* Supports builtin abstract classes, e.g. Iterator, Number, ...
* Caches for fast repeated lookup
* Identifies possible ambiguities at function definition time
* Provides hints to resolve ambiguities when they occur
* Supports namespaces with optional keyword arguments
* Supports variadic dispatch
What this doesn't do:
* Diagonal dispatch
* Efficient update: The addition of a new signature requires a full resolve
of the whole function. This becomes troublesome after you get to a few
hundred type signatures.
This will be maintained within the Debian Python Team.
Reply to: