Timeline for how to follow python polymorphism standards with math functions
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| Jun 30, 2013 at 2:18 | comment | added | detly |
@krishnab - Yep. Just document the requirements for your code, and read the documentation of others, and you should be fine. Sometimes you'd consider raising a ValueError on certain kinds of invalid inputs, eg. trying to do a std dev on a list of one. But those are fairly rare cases, and aren't so much to do with type checking as input validation.
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| Jun 30, 2013 at 1:25 | comment | added | krishnab | I think I get it. So there is a compromise between accepting valid numeric inputs that enter in different types of containers, versus trying to catch every possible type of error. That helps a lot. Thanks. | |
| Jun 29, 2013 at 5:16 | history | answered | detly | CC BY-SA 3.0 |