Larry Hastings added the comment: The attached patch extends Argument Clinic and the inspect module: now you may use simple (!) expressions as default values. So for example "sys.maxsize - 1" should now work fine.
* Names may be in the current module; as a backup they will also be looked up in sys.modules. * You may look up attributes of names. * You may subscript into names. * You may use math operators, both unary and binary. * int/float/string literals are (still) fine. * You may not use: function calls, list/set/dict/tuple/bytes literals, generator expressions or comprehensions, if expressions, anything fun. Other changes in this diff: * "doc_default" is gone, it no longer makes sense. * "py_default" and "c_default" handling is simpler and more predictable. * Minor doc fix suggested on tracker. The docs still need work. More tests would be good too but I'm already overwhelmed by work--could one of you guys contribute some tests? ---------- stage: -> patch review type: -> enhancement Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file33473/larry.clinic.rollup.patch.two.diff.1.txt _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue20226> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
