On Fri, 15 Jun 2012 17:26:25 -0400 Yury Selivanov <yselivanov...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2012-06-15, at 5:13 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > > > On Fri, 15 Jun 2012 17:07:46 -0400 > > Yury Selivanov <yselivanov...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 2012-06-15, at 4:48 PM, Victor Stinner wrote: > >> [snip] > >>> Would it be possible to only create a signature for builtin the first > >>> time that you read its __signature__ attribute? I don't know how to > >>> implement such behaviour on a builtin function. I don't know if it's > >>> important to decide this right now. > >>> > >>> I don't want to create a signature at startup if it is not used, > >>> because it would waste memory (as docstrings? :-)). > >> > >> I think when we have the working mechanism to generate them in place, > >> we can make it lazy. > > > > I'm not sure I understand. The PEP already says signatures are computed > > lazily. Is there an exception for built-in functions? > > Right now, if there is no '__signature__' attribute set on a builtin > function - there is no way of generating it (PyCFunctionObject doesn't > have __code__), so a ValueError will be raised. Ok, but what does this mean for 3.3? Does the PEP propose that all builtins get a non-lazy __signature__, or simply that ValueError always be raised? Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
