On 2012-06-15, at 4:48 PM, Victor Stinner wrote: [snip] > Would it be possible to only create a signature for builtin the first > time that you read its __signature__ attribute? I don't know how to > implement such behaviour on a builtin function. I don't know if it's > important to decide this right now. > > I don't want to create a signature at startup if it is not used, > because it would waste memory (as docstrings? :-)).
I think when we have the working mechanism to generate them in place, we can make it lazy. > Or we might drop > __signature__ if python -O is used? No, that'd be unacceptable. - 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
