On Apr 6, 2011, at 10:08 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote: > On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 5:57 AM, Raymond Hettinger > <raymond.hettin...@gmail.com> wrote: >> [Brett] >>> This PEP requires that in these instances that both >>> the Python and C code must be semantically identical >> >> Are you talking about the guaranteed semantics >> promised by the docs or are you talking about >> every possible implementation detail? >> >> ISTM that even with pure python code, we get problems >> with people relying on implementation specific details. > > Indeed. > > Argument handling is certainly a tricky one - getting positional only > arguments requires a bit of a hack in pure Python code (accepting > *args and unpacking the arguments manually), but it comes reasonably > naturally when parsing arguments directly using the C API.
Perhaps the argument handling for C functions ought to be enhanced to work like python's argument handling, instead of trying to hack it the other way around? James _______________________________________________ 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
