On 2012-06-06, at 9:28 AM, Isaac Morland wrote: > On Wed, 6 Jun 2012, Nick Coghlan wrote: > >> 2. Signature.bind introduces the ability to split the "bind arguments >> to parameters" operation from the "call object" operation > > Has anybody considered calling bind __call__? That is, the result of calling > the signature of a procedure instead of the procedure itself is the locals() > dictionary the procedure would start with (except presumably missing > non-parameter local variables).
I'd stick with more explicit 'bind' method. Compare (given the 'sig = signature(func)'): ba = sig(*args, **kwargs) to: ba = sig.bind(*args, **kwargs) The second case looks more clear to me. Thanks, - Yury _______________________________________________ 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