Bug report
Bug description:
Decorator-based functools.singledispatch registration prioritizes the types of normal arguments before positional-only ones when getting "the type of the first argument".
This means that a function of def f(pos: str, /, other: int) will be registered to be dispatched for other's type (int) instead of pos (str).
To reproduce:
import functools @functools.singledispatch def f(arg, /, extra): return f"{arg}: undispatched type" @f.register def f_int(arg: int, /, extra: str): return f"{arg} is a {type(arg)} (dispatched by int)" @f.register def f_str(arg: str, /, extra: int): return f"{arg} is a {type(arg)} (dispatched by str)" print(f(None, "extra")) print(f(1, "extra")) print(f("s", "extra"))
Result:
None: undispatched type
1 is a <class 'int'> (dispatched by str)
s is a <class 'str'> (dispatched by int)
Expected:
None: undispatched type
1 is a <class 'int'> (dispatched by int)
s is a <class 'str'> (dispatched by str)
CPython versions tested on:
3.9, 3.10, 3.11, 3.12, 3.13, 3.14, CPython main branch
Operating systems tested on:
macOS