Eric Firing <efir...@hawaii.edu> writes: >> The current pyplot wrappers all have an argspec of (*args, **kwargs), >> which means that any interactive tools that show the possible arguments > > It is in some ways a separate change, but it would be nice if the > boilerplate were generated at build time, and/or generated as a separate > file from which pyplot.py would import everything. I don't like having > a single file that is partly hand-edited and partly machine-generated.
You're right, it would be better to generate it at build time. One problem with this is that my version of boilerplate.py needs to import axes.py to access the methods of the Axes class, and axes.py in turn imports other things, making it impossible to run boilerplate.py without having compiled the compilable modules. That's why I munge sys.path before importing axes -- and there are lots of things that could go wrong with that. I guess a more correct approach would be to use something like the parser module to read axes.py without executing the code. >> Since we only support Python >=2.4 now, we could get rid of the whole >> boilerplate code system and replace it with something more dynamic as >> envisioned in >> >> http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_frm/thread/dcd63ec13096a0f6/1b14640f3a4ad3dc?#1b14640f3a4ad3dc >> >> but I don't see any way of keeping the wrapped function's argspec >> without doing something much like what we do now. >> > > Have you looked at the decorator module? > http://pypi.python.org/pypi/decorator That looks like it could work -- the memoize example seems to be pretty close to our wrapping needs. I'll spend some time thinking about this later. Thanks for the link! -- Jouni K. Seppänen http://www.iki.fi/jks ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ OpenSolaris 2009.06 is a cutting edge operating system for enterprises looking to deploy the next generation of Solaris that includes the latest innovations from Sun and the OpenSource community. Download a copy and enjoy capabilities such as Networking, Storage and Virtualization. Go to: http://p.sf.net/sfu/opensolaris-get _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
