On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 11:35 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: > On Tue, 04 Dec 2012 11:04:09 -0800 > Larry Hastings <la...@hastings.org> wrote: >> >> Along these lines, I've been contemplating proposing that Clinic >> specifically understand "path" arguments, distinctly from other string >> arguments, as they are both common and rarely handled correctly. My >> main fear is that I probably don't understand all their complexities >> either ;-) >> >> Anyway, this is certainly something we can consider *improving* for >> Python 3.4. But for now I'm trying to make Clinic an indistinguishable >> drop-in replacement. >> > [...] >> >> Naturally I agree Clinic needs more polishing. But the problem you fear >> is already solved. Clinic allows precisely expressing any existing >> PyArg_ "format unit"** through a combination of the type of the >> parameter and its "flags". > > Very nice then! Your work is promising, and I hope we'll see a version > of it some day in Python 3.4 (or 3.4+k).
+1 for getting this into 3.4. Does it need a PEP, or just a bug tracker item + code review? I think the latter is fine -- it's probably better not to do too much bikeshedding but just to let Larry propose a patch, have it reviewed and submitted, and then iterate. It's also okay if it is initially used for only a subset of extension modules (and even if some functions/methods can't be expressed using it yet). -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) _______________________________________________ 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
