On 1/20/2014 7:59 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
However, while I know you're keen to finally make introspection work for all C level callables in 3.4, even the ones with signatures that can't be expressed as Python function signatures, I'd like to strongly encourage you to hold off on that last part until Python 3.5.
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That way, you can resurrect PEP 457, recast it as proposing an *output* format for inspect.Signature.__repr__(), add an inspect.Signature.fromstr() API that can use it to create a signature object from __text_signature__ attributes (rather than relying on ast.parse), add the optional group support and do it *right*, rather than trying to squeeze it in as a new public API during the beta period, which may lock us in to supporting an introspection API we later regret.
I agree. What we can do with the API we have already is a great advance. -- Terry Jan Reedy _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
