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Re: Newbie: static typing?

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On 6 August 2013 10:01, Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

It's really not.


>>> 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.

Unless you have a very good reason, don't do this. It's a damn pain
when functions won't accept my custom types with equivalent
functionality -- Python's a duck-typed language and it should behave
like one.

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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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