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Re: Newbie: static typing?

From	Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Subject	Re: Newbie: static typing?
Date	2013-08-06 10:01 +0100
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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Ben Finney wrote:

> Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> Is there any pythonic way to perform static typing?
> 
> I think no; static typing is inherently un-Pythonic.
> 
> Python provides strong, dynamic typing. Enjoy it!

Bummer. 

>> Does anyone care to enlighten a newbie?
> 
> Is there some specific problem you think needs static typing? Perhaps
> you could start a new thread, giving an example where you are having
> trouble and you think static typing would help.

It would be nice if some functions threw an error if they were passed a type 
they don't support or weren't designed to handle.  That would avoid having 
to deal with some bugs which otherwise would never happen.  

To avoid this sort of error, I've been testing arguments passed to some 
functions based on their type, and raising TypeError when necessariy, but 
surely there must be a better, more pythonic way to handle this issue.

Rui Maciel

Thread

Newbie: static typing? Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2013-08-05 21:46 +0100
  Re: Newbie: static typing? Gary Herron <gary.herron@islandtraining.com> - 2013-08-05 14:07 -0700
    Re: Newbie: static typing? Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2013-08-06 10:05 +0100
      Re: Newbie: static typing? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2013-08-06 09:26 +0000
      Re: Newbie: static typing? Joshua Landau <joshua@landau.ws> - 2013-08-06 10:29 +0100
        Re: Newbie: static typing? Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2013-08-06 11:12 +0100
          Re: Newbie: static typing? Burak Arslan <burak.arslan@arskom.com.tr> - 2013-08-06 16:27 +0300
          Re: Newbie: static typing? Antoon Pardon <antoon.pardon@rece.vub.ac.be> - 2013-08-06 15:57 +0200
          Re: Newbie: static typing? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-08-06 15:06 +0100
          Re: Newbie: static typing? "Eric S. Johansson" <esj@harvee.org> - 2013-08-06 09:58 -0400
          Re: Newbie: static typing? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-08-06 15:38 +0100
      Easier to Ask Forgiveness than Permission (was: Newbie: static typing?) Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2013-08-07 08:23 +1000
  Re: Newbie: static typing? Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2013-08-05 17:38 -0600
  Re: Newbie: static typing? Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2013-08-06 10:35 +1000
    Re: Newbie: static typing? Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2013-08-06 10:01 +0100
      Re: Newbie: static typing? Joshua Landau <joshua@landau.ws> - 2013-08-06 10:19 +0100
        Re: Newbie: static typing? Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2013-08-06 11:07 +0100
          Re: Newbie: static typing? Rotwang <sg552@hotmail.co.uk> - 2013-08-06 15:25 +0100
          Re: Newbie: static typing? Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2013-08-07 08:34 +1000
      Re: Newbie: static typing? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-08-06 10:29 +0100
        Re: Newbie: static typing? Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2013-08-06 11:28 +0100
          Re: Newbie: static typing? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-08-06 11:50 +0100
          Re: Newbie: static typing? Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2013-08-06 18:54 -0400
          Re: Newbie: static typing? Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-08-06 19:02 -0400
          Re: Newbie: static typing? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-08-07 01:16 +0100
          RE: Newbie: static typing? "Prasad, Ramit" <ramit.prasad@jpmorgan.com.dmarc.invalid> - 2013-08-08 16:46 +0000
  Re: Newbie: static typing? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2013-08-06 05:21 +0000
    Re: Newbie: static typing? Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2013-08-06 10:04 +0100
  Re: Newbie: static typing? Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2013-08-06 15:05 +0000

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