On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 9:08 AM, Barry Warsaw <ba...@python.org> wrote: > 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.
All sounds good to me. -- --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
