Generic Typing with Iterable[str]
or Collection[str]
: Should you use it?
Generic Typing with Iterable[str]
or Collection[str]
: Should you use it?
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:
python
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?