I really want to get Argument Clinic in to Python 3.4. Currently the
following is true:
* It has an implementation I've been working on for more than a year.
* I assert that it's a reasonable approach and the APIs are ready for
public consumption.
* The syntax for the DSL is the one proposed by Guido at PyCon US 2013.
* So far It has little in the way of documentation apart from the PEP.
* The PEP is out of date and not ready for pronouncement.
* IIUC Guido said he's not delegating this PEP.
There's now a discussion afoot about merging "tulip" in, in time for
3.4a4, which I think is going to happen. And as Release Manager for 3.4
I'm happy to see this happen.
I'd like to propose much the same thing for Argument Clinic: check it in
now, before 3.4a4, and let it bake in trunk a little before feature
freeze at beta 1 while I run around and finish the documentation.
You can review the existing code here:
https://bitbucket.org/larry/python-clinic/
(Yes, in this fork clinic.py is at the root--but then I never intended
to merge this fork.)
Checking in Clinic would mean:
* Adding the tool (one file, "clinic.py") and its test suite into
Tools/clinic/
* Adding its documentation somewhere in the Doc/ directory
* Merging six or eight places where I've converted random functions to
use Clinic
Brett Cannon gave the code a cursory review at PyCon CA over about six
hours, and iirc he said it was basically reasonable. He wanted more
coverage in the tests, and more in-depth review of course, but he had
only minor feedback, all of which I've incorporated.
(In case you're wondering: last time I tried, coverage from just the
unit test suite was about 85%, but if you also ran all my sample usage
of it in the CPython code it rose to like 92%.)
So, quick poll: do you approve of me checking Argument Clinic in to
Python 3.4 trunk in its current state before 3.4a4?
//arry/
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