On Mon, Nov 1, 2021 at 11:26 AM Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: > What sort of testing and maintenance perspective are you referring to? > Testing and maintenance of the Python interpreter? Or your own code? > > If it is your own code then this proposal will have no effect on your > testing and maintenance. You already have tests, don't you? Then they > will work the same way whether your functions use late-bound defaults or > not. If you don't have tests, then the tests that you don't have will > continue to not work the same as they currently don't work.
For the record: Out of 430 test files in the CPython test suite, only eight failed after I finished my first version of the implementation. That's a lot of tests that don't even care. (Some of those failures indicate actual problems that I needed to fix, or still need to. A couple are simple and very rigid tests that check things like the size of a function object. I don't think any of them indicate actual problems in any place other than the code I actually need to change - the parser, executor, and the inspect module.) Most code won't even be aware of this change. 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/67XLC2RESR5QLWNJGWQVSYF7XQCTEAWS/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
