On Nov 14, 2007 10:30 AM, Isaac Morland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For another project (see my previous email on named tuples), I needed to > represent procedure signatures, and use them to expand arguments into the > dictionary of values that exists when execution of a procedure starts. To my > surprise, this capability didn't seem to be provided by the Python library, > even though it clearly is present within the Python system somewhere. > > So I wrote a Signature class. Instances of the class represent all the > information present between the parentheses of a procedure definition. > Properties are provided to get the information out, and an expand_args method > can be called to expand arguments into a dictionary. This expand_args method > implements (if I've done it right) the argument conversion part of section > 5.3.4 of the Python Reference Manual (http://docs.python.org/ref/calls.html).
Have you seen http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0362/? It sounds awfully similar to what you're proposing here. Collin Winter _______________________________________________ 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
