https://github.com/gaphor/generic

Generic programming library for Python
https://github.com/gaphor/generic

generic generic-programming python

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Generic programming library for Python

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/gaphor/generic
• Owner: gaphor
• Created: 2010-07-15T07:49:24.000Z (over 15 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2025-09-21T10:22:50.000Z (4 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-09-21T11:41:39.920Z (4 months ago)
• Topics: generic, generic-programming, python
• Language: Python
• Homepage: http://generic.readthedocs.org/
• Size: 1.3 MB
• Stars: 61
• Watchers: 4
• Forks: 9
• Open Issues: 3
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Contributing: CONTRIBUTING.md
  • License: LICENSES/BSD-3-Clause.txt
  • Code of conduct: CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
  • Security: SECURITY.md

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# Generic programming library for Python

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Generic is a library for [Generic programming](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_programming), also known as [Multiple dispatch](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_dispatch).

The Generic library supports:

* multi-dispatch: like `functools.singledispatch`, but for more than one parameter

* multi-methods: multi-dispatch, but for methods

* event dispatching: based on a hierarchical event structure (event objects)

You can read

[documentation](http://generic.readthedocs.org/en/latest/index.html) hosted at

excellent readthedocs.org project. Development takes place on

[github](http://github.com/gaphor/generic).

# Changes

## 1.1.6

- Refactoring

## 1.1.5

- Fix regression with super type dispatching

- Dependency updates

## 1.1.4

- Dependency updates

## 1.1.3

- Dependency updates

## 1.1.2

- Replace print statements with logging

- Enable trusted publisher for PyPI

- Create Security Policy

- Update LICENSE to BSD 3-Clause

- Add support for Python 3.12

- Simplify build: drop tox

- Update documentation theme to Furo

- Switch linting to ruff

## 1.1.1

- Add support for Python 3.11

- Move mypy configuration to pyproject.toml

- Enable automatic release of new versions with CI

## 1.1.0

- Rename `master` branch to `main`

- `generic.event.Manager` executes all handlers and throws an `ExceptionGroup` in case of errors

## 1.0.1

- Add Support for Python 3.10, Drop Support for Python 3.7

- Enable Pre-commit Hooks for isort, toml, yaml, pyupgrade, docformatter, and flake8

- Migrate to GitHub Actions

## 1.0.0

- Updated documentation on [Readthedocs](https://generic.readthedocs.io)

- Fix `multimethod.otherwise` clause

## 1.0.0b1

- Ported the code to Python 3.7, Python 2 is no longer supported

- Multimethods now have their own module

- The interface now mimics `functools.singledispatch`:

  - the `when` method has been renamed to `register`

  - overriding of methods is no longer possible

## 0.3.1

- Minor fixes in distribution.

## 0.3

- Event management with event inheritance support.

## 0.2

- Methods with multidispatch by object type and positional arguments.

- Override multifunctions with ``override`` method.

## 0.1

- Registry with simple and type axes.

- Functions with multidispatch by positional arguments.