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With Python's type-safety is difficult but it can be implemented through smart use of Python decorators.
An interesting example can be seen below:
import itertools as it
@parametrized
def types(f, *types):
def rep(*args):
for a, t, n in zip(args, types, it.count()):
if type(a) is not t:
raise TypeError('Value %d has not type %s. %s instead' %
(n, t, type(a))
)
return f(*args)
return rep
@types(str, int) # arg1 is str, arg2 is int
def string_multiply(text, times):
return text * times
print(string_multiply('hello', 3)) # Prints hellohellohello
print(string_multiply(3, 3)) # Fails miserably with TypeError
# From: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5929107/decorators-with-parameters