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Generic Typing with Iterable[str] or Collection[str]: Should you use it? (feddit.de)
submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by wasabi@feddit.de to c/python@programming.dev
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I often find myself defining function args with list[SomeClass] type and think "do I really care that it's a list? No, tuple or Generator is fine, too". I then tend to use Iterable[SomeClass] or Collection[SomeClass]. But when it comes to str, I really don't like that solution, because if you have this function:

def foo(bar: Collection[str]) -> None:
    pass

Then calling foo("hello") is fine, too, because "hello" is a collection of strings with length 1, which would not be fine if I just used list[str] in the first place. What would you do in a situation like this?

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[–] GammaGames@beehaw.org 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Oh, I had it backwards! I tried to mess with the hint and couldn’t find anything, maybe an assert?

from typing import Collection

def foo(bar: Collection[str]):
    assert not isinstance(bar, str)
    print(bar)