On Wed, Oct 27, 2021 at 2:05 AM Eric V. Smith <e...@trueblade.com> wrote: > > Among my objections to this proposal is introspection: how would that > work? The PEP mentions that the text of the expression would be > available for introspection, but that doesn't seem very useful.
Doesn't it? It would certainly be useful in help(). > At the very least, the PEP needs to talk about inspect.Signature > objects, and how they would support these late-bound function arguments. > And in particular, how would you create a Signature object that > represents a function with such arguments? What would the default values > look like? I think Dave Beazley has a talk somewhere where he > dynamically creates objects that implement specific Signatures, I'll try > to dig it up and produce an example. For me, it's a show-stopper if you > can't support this with late-bound arguments. That's a very good point. I suspect that what will happen is that these args will simply be omitted. It's the only way to ensure that the values are calculated correctly. But I don't (yet) know enough of the details of inspect.Signature to say for sure. ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/G2BISTD2OTVPQERZJSFPJXF6A3R4P632/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
