On May 03, 2013, at 07:40 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: >The problem is that this is not an expression, it is a statement. The >advantage of the convenience function is not just that it is shorter, but >that it is an expression.
Exactly right, but let's stop calling it the "convenience API" and instead call it the "functional API". I probably started the perpetuation of this problem; let's update the PEP. BTW, I made a suggestion elsewhere that the first argument could accept, but not require dotted names in the first argument. If provided, rsplit the string and use the prefix as __module__. If not given, fallback to the _getframe() hack for those implementations where it's available. The same could probably be done to namedtuples. -Barry _______________________________________________ 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
