On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 09:19:35AM -0500, R. David Murray wrote: > On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 07:36:37 -0600, Benjamin Peterson <benja...@python.org> > wrote: > > 2010/11/17 Oleg Broytman <p...@phd.pp.ru>: > > > Seems to be rather a usage question, not a development question > > > (python-dev > > > is about *developing* python, not *using* it). > > > > Well, technically I think it's a feature request. > > > > > > > > On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 01:48:06PM +0100, Emile Anclin wrote: > > >> hello everybody, > > >> > > >> migrating Pylint to python3.x, we encounter a little problem : > > >> in the tree generated by _ast, if we consider a "args" node (representing > > >> an argument of a function), the "lineno" (and the "col_offset") > > >> information disappeared from those nodes. Is there a particular > > >> reason for that ? In python2.x, the "args" nodes were just "Name" nodes, > > >> and as for now we keep them as "AssName" nodes in astng/pylint and would > > >> like to know where it was defined. > > > > I wouldn't object to adding them back if you want to file a bug report. > > It also seems to me that it was a perfectly appropriate question > for this list. The question was "why did you developers drop this > (obscure) feature that we depend on in Python3?"
The problem for me is the wording. A question like "why did you developers drop a feature?" is certainly a development question, while "like to know where it was defined" seems more like a usage question. I apologize for misunderstanding. > I don't think that > question would make sense on python-list. Granted, there's a fuzzy > line there, but pylint is really development infrastructure :) > > The python-porting list would have been a good alternate choice. > > -- > R. David Murray www.bitdance.com Oleg. -- Oleg Broytman http://phd.pp.ru/ p...@phd.pp.ru Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN. _______________________________________________ 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