generic 0.1

A set of tools for generic programming.

Generic is trying to be simple and easy-to-use programming library that features the following:

• Multidispatching mechanisms for functions and methods (latter is not implemented yet).

• Registries with different and user-defined lookup strategies.

• Event system (not implemented).

Its development takes place at http://github.com/andreypopp.

Multidispatching

Generic library provides way to define function with multidispatching feature:

from generic.multidispatching import multifunction

@multifunction(int, int)
def add(x, y):
    return x + y

@add.when(str, str)
def add(x, y):
    return add(int(x), int(y))

And then in console:

>>> add(1, 2)
3
>>> add("1", "2")
3
>>> add("1", 2)
Traceback
...
TypeError: ...