Am 04.02.2014 10:12, schrieb Larry Hastings: > If you won't let me have a flag, can I at least have a more-clever marker? > How > about this: > > <name-of-function>(...)\n \n > > Yes, the last four characters are right-parenthesis, newline, space, and > newline. Benefits: > > * The odds of finding *that* in the wild seem remote. > * If this got displayed as help in 3.3 the user would never notice the > space.
Clever, but due to the "hidden" space it also increases the frustration factor for people trying to find out "why is this accepted as a signature and not this". I don't think a well-chosen visible separator is worse off, such as "--\n". Georg _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
