Yury Selivanov added the comment: Larry,
I saw your message on the tracker regarding adding support for parameters groups to the signature object. Would you mind if I join the discussion with my ideas of how this feature might be implemented? Yury On Sunday, January 19, 2014 at 5:44 AM, Larry Hastings wrote: > > Larry Hastings added the comment: > > I just want to mention, while we're all thinking about this stuff: I plan to > enhance the Signature object to reflect "optional groups". Right now > Signature objects cannot express parameters that are optional but don't have > a published default. (e.g. a string parameter for a builtin having a default > of NULL). A lot of these are being converted using optional groups, and I > want to make it at least possible for user code to introspect those functions > and understand that those are optional parameters. > > My original plan was to add a "group" member, containing an arbitrary > identifier of the "group" this parameter belongs to. I'm not sure that's > sufficient; I may also need a "parent_group" parameter, or something like > that, to represent the group that this group is nested in. I'm still thinking > about it. But I'm hoping to get to this in the next two or three days. > > ---------- > > _______________________________________ > Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org (mailto:rep...@bugs.python.org)> > <http://bugs.python.org/issue17481> > _______________________________________ ---------- nosy: +Yury.Selivanov _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue17481> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
