On Mon, May 01, 2006, Brett Cannon wrote: > > But there are two things that I can't quite decide upon. > > One is whether a signature object should be automatically created > for every function. As of right now the PEP I am drafting has it > on a per-need basis and have it assigned to __signature__ through > a built-in function or putting it 'inspect'. Now automatically > creating the object would possibly make it more useful, but it > could also be considered overkill. Also not doing it automatically > allows signature objects to possibly make more sense for classes (to > represent __init__) and instances (to represent __call__). But having > that same support automatically feels off for some reason to me.
My take is that we should do it automatically and provide a helper function that does additional work. The class case is already complicated by __new__(); we probably don't want to automatically sort out __init__() vs __new__(), but I think we do want regular functions and methods to automatically have a __signature__ attribute. Aside from the issue with classes, are there any other drawbacks to automatically creating __signature__? -- Aahz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours." --Richard Bach _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
