On Fri, 18 Aug 2017 at 02:05 Christian Tismer <tis...@stackless.com> wrote:
> Hi friends, > > in the last months, I have developed signature support for > PySide. The module creates the same signatures as are known > for plain Python functions. > > As a non-trivial addition, the module also handles multiple > signatures as a list. I consider this extension to PySide > as quite essential and actually more important as for Python > itself, because type info is rather crucial for PySide. > > Initially, I wrote this as a pure Python 3 extension. > Then I was "asked" to port this to Python 2 too, which was > quite hairy to do. I'm not sure if I should have done that. > > Before I publish this module, I want to ask: > -------------------------------------------- > > Is it a bad idea to support signatures in Python 2 as well? > Do I introduce a feature that should not exist in Python 2? > Or is it fine to do so? > > Please let me know your opinion, I am happy with any result. > If you're getting paid to do the port then I don't think it really hurts anything since it isn't going to magically open Python 2 to more usage. In fact, if you are filling in the annotation information so that type hints are being exposed then maybe there's a chance it might help someone port to Python 3?
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