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Python Tip of the Week: Using Dispatch Tables for Cleaner Validation

Let’s be honest: argument validation code is rarely the proudest part of anyone’s repo.

Most of us start with the usual suspects:

❌ The dreaded inverted-V tower of if/else statements
❌ A graveyard of guard clauses scattered line after line


Using a dispatch table for validation rules means: one dictionary, one loop, infinite sanity.


Both work fine… until they don’t. Then you’re left maintaining a wall of conditionals that feels like it was designed by a committee of goblins.

There’s a better way: dispatch tables!

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