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Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 02:13:25 +1100
Subject: Re: Python is DOOMED! Again!
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 1:57 AM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:
> Chris Angelico wrote:
>
>> Hold on a moment, how often do you really do this kind of thing with
>> "might be one of them or a sequence"?
>
> isinstance(obj, one_class_or_tuple_of_classes)
> issubclass(cls, one_class_or_tuple_of_classes)
> mystr.startswith(prefix_or_tuple_of_prefixes)
> mystr.endswith(suffix_or_tuple_of_suffixes)
> template % one_string_or_tuple_of_strings  # or a dict :-)
>
>
> I'm not suggesting that the specific example is a good one, but the
> principle is sound.

All of your examples are "might be one of them or a tuple". Not
"sequence", "tuple". That gets around the problem of recognition,
because in no case is a single tuple a valid argument.

I suspect it would be possible to use TypeVar to create a nice
"OneOrMore" like you suggested, but for reliability, it should
probably be "or tuple" rather than "or sequence".

ChrisA