Gregory Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> writes: > Steven D'Aprano wrote: >> On Tue, 22 Oct 2013 09:38:16 +0200, Lele Gaifax wrote: >> >>>The actual syntax would be >>> >>> [object method: arg1 withSomething: arg2 withSomethingElse: arg3] >> >> I don't get how to map that to Python's syntax. > > It's roughly morally equivalent to > > object.method(arg1, withSomething = arg2, withSomethingElse = arg3) > > But there are several reasons why it's not really equivalent > to that. PyObjC actually maps it to > > object.method_withSomething_withSomethingElse_(arg1, arg2, arg3) > > which is very close to what Objective C is doing under the hood.
Right (IIRC, I initially used a double underscore as separator), and that's because in ObjC the method [object method:arg1 withSomething:arg2 withSomethingElse:arg3] is completely unrelated to [object method:arg1 withSomethingElse:arg3 withSomething:arg2] I wish I had a way, at the time (we were in the 1.x era), to use something like OrderedDict to carry around the kwargs argument of a function/method, that could let me use a nicer syntax... I did even cook-up a quick&dirty patch, but being too biased toward the "dirty" side it did not go too far. ciao, lele. -- nickname: Lele Gaifax | Quando vivrò di quello che ho pensato ieri real: Emanuele Gaifas | comincerò ad aver paura di chi mi copia. l...@metapensiero.it | -- Fortunato Depero, 1929. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list