On 22 April 2015 at 03:31, Larry Hastings <la...@hastings.org> wrote: > > On 04/21/2015 04:50 AM, Tal Einat wrote: > > As for the default set of accepted types for various convertors, if we > could choose any syntax we liked, something like "accept=+{NoneType}" > would be much better IMO. > > > In theory Argument Clinic could use any syntax it likes. In practice, under > the covers we tease out one or two bits of non-Python syntax, then run > ast.parse over it. Saved us a lot of work. > > "s: accept={str,NoneType}" is a legal Python parameter declaration; "s: > accept+={NoneType}" is not. If I could figure out a clean way to hack in > support for += I'll support it. Otherwise you'll be forced to spell it out.
Ellipsis seems potentially useful here to mean "whatever the default accepted types are": "s: accept={...,NoneType}" My other question would be whether we can use "None" in preference to NoneType, as PEP 484 does: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0484/#using-none Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ 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