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Re: Interface and duck typing woes

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Well, the main reason for me asking this question here was because of
the Java/C#/Whatever developer in me craving for an Interface for the
container's items, and I noticed that I'm not alone in this. But I was
actually expecting the "We're all consenting adults, here", I guess I
just needed the confirmation :-)

Another reason for this question is that I read some people saying
they wouldn't use python for large projects, and they always point at
the lack of Interfaces as a concern. I actually disagree, but I can
see their point. What do you think?

@Nobody
>> Of course I don't want to check isistance(), I like duck typing, but
>> should I check if hasattr() and callable() before adding to the container?
>That won't tell you if the object has a quack() method but with
>incompatible semantics (e.g. wrong number or types of arguments).

Yeah, didn't think about that, it's kinda swimming upstream!
Definitely it is more hassle than it is worth.

@ChrisA
>Do you believe that you can write code to catch every bug you might
>make? If so, you are naive and probably haven't spent much time
>programming yet :) And if not, then you must acknowledge that bugs
>WILL happen; therefore you will need to cope with them after the
>event. So rather than trying to prevent them all, just improve your
>means of coping, and you'll accomplish the same end with much less
>trouble.

Oh, no! I'm not that presumptuous (or naive)! But what do you mean by
"improve means of coping"? Do you know any article on the subject you
could point me?

@Steven
>> Of course I don't want to check isistance(), I like duck typing, but
>> should I check if hasattr() and callable() before adding to the
>> container? What is the pythonic way to deal with it? Am I worrying too
>> much ;-)?

>Yes :-)

Well, thanks! :-) And thanks for the article.

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Interface and duck typing woes Joe Junior <joe.fbs.junior@gmail.com> - 2013-08-28 18:09 -0300
  Re: Interface and duck typing woes Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-08-28 23:24 +0000
  Re: Interface and duck typing woes Nobody <nobody@nowhere.com> - 2013-08-29 10:41 +0100
    Re: Interface and duck typing woes Joe Junior <joe.fbs.junior@gmail.com> - 2013-08-29 09:40 -0300
      Re: Interface and duck typing woes alex23 <wuwei23@gmail.com> - 2013-08-30 10:14 +1000
      Re: Interface and duck typing woes Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-08-30 02:42 +0000
        Re: Interface and duck typing woes Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-08-30 06:35 -0400
          Re: Interface and duck typing woes Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-08-31 00:13 +0000
            Re: Interface and duck typing woes Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2013-08-30 20:45 -0400
            Re: Interface and duck typing woes Joshua Landau <joshua@landau.ws> - 2013-09-01 00:18 +0100
            Re: Interface and duck typing woes Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-08-31 20:52 -0400
    Re: Interface and duck typing woes Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-08-29 23:07 +1000
    Re: Interface and duck typing woes Joe Junior <joe.fbs.junior@gmail.com> - 2013-08-29 11:11 -0300
  Re: Interface and duck typing woes jussi.santti@ard.fi - 2013-08-29 22:37 -0700

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