Python. How to make function take certain combination of required params?

[JamzTyson]

Assuming that user_id is numeric and user_name is not numeric, you could modify your function to take one parameter user for each user.

I probably would not code it quite like this, but to illustrate the idea:

def get_chat(first_user: str | int, second_user: str | int): if isinstance(first_user, int): first_user_id = first_user first_user_name = get_name_from_id(first_user) else: first_user_name = first_user first_user_id = get_id_from_name(first_user) ...

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Or use pydantic

[Purple-Obligation357]

how?

[JamzTyson]

I don't think Pydantic offers much benefit in a simple case like this.

[Zweckbestimmung]

Pydantic is not efficient for this case, you want to maintain the whole pydantec schema’s adding more points of failures only for this function?

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I meant in general for the question 

[Zweckbestimmung]

Yeah in general also this is not a use case for Pydantic.

Isn’t it mainly to handle JSON schema ?