Sorry for top posting: I’m on the road. inspect.signature can help with this.
-- Eric > On Jul 27, 2022, at 9:22 AM, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Wed, 27 Jul 2022 at 22:54, Mathew Elman <mathew.el...@ocado.com> wrote: >> >> Chris Angelico wrote: >>>> Again, I am not pro this idea, just answering the questions you're asking >>>> as I see them :) >>> Yeah. I think you're doing a great job of showing why this is a bad idea :) >> >> I do think the desire to fix the "wrapper not needing to know the defaults >> of wrapped" problem is admirable. >> Is this the right approach? No, I think not. > > Wrapper not needing to know the defaults of the wrapped can be solved > with *a,**kw. This modifies the problem into "callers of the wrapper > now don't know anything about the signature". I'd rather look into > ways of solving that problem instead - ways of taking a function > signature, making specific changes to it (usually adding and/or > removing args, but maybe other changes), and then making that your > declared signature. At the moment, it's only possible to copy a > signature as is (with functools.wraps() and equivalents). > > ChrisA > _______________________________________________ > Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ > Message archived at > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/66RPVNZGZS5BLYNNVGPTCHOHXDFMLO2L/ > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/HAXN7644YAHVEGKSQJU4SGSJHNLR6ZWG/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
