[Zope-Perl] Python void context

[Chris McDonough]

It occurs to me that you could define a context default keyword argument
to the Perl function e.g.

obj.func(1,2,context="list")
obj.func(1,2,context="scalar")
obj.func(1,2,context="void")

Where func's signature defines context as a default:

func(self, arg1, arg2, context="list")

This seems to be the 'pythonic' way of dealing with such a thing.  I'm
not sure how you're implementing a Perl function wrapper, so I'm not
sure if this suits you.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris McDonough [mailto:chrism@digicool.com]
> Sent: Friday, May 26, 2000 10:01 AM
> To: 'Gisle Aas'; zope-perl@zope.org
> Subject: RE: [Zope-Perl] Python void context
> 
> 
> > Is there a way for python functions to find out if they are 
> called in
> > void context (i.e. that the caller does not care about a 
> > return value)?
> 
> AFAIK, no.  The return value is just tossed.  Python functions know
> little about their callers in general...
> 
> 
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