[issue22096] Argument Clinic: add ability to specify an existing impl function

2014-08-01 Thread Zachary Ware
Zachary Ware added the comment: Fair enough. -- resolution: - rejected stage: - resolved status: open - closed ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue22096 ___

[issue22096] Argument Clinic: add ability to specify an existing impl function

2014-07-29 Thread Martin v . Löwis
Martin v. Löwis added the comment: I don't think it it is worth the effort. You would need two different entry functions still, to allow error messages to refer to the function name. Since the _impl functions can trivially call each other, the saving in lines of code are minimal, and from a

[issue22096] Argument Clinic: add ability to specify an existing impl function

2014-07-29 Thread Larry Hastings
Larry Hastings added the comment: I'm with Martin. It would be a funny exception, where the reader'd get confused... why is the impl missing? Also, any halfway-decent optimizer will inline the impl into the parsing function, so this has no runtime cost. --

[issue22096] Argument Clinic: add ability to specify an existing impl function

2014-07-28 Thread Zachary Ware
Changes by Zachary Ware zachary.w...@gmail.com: -- components: Demos and Tools nosy: larry, zach.ware priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Argument Clinic: add ability to specify an existing impl function type: enhancement versions: Python 3.4, Python 3.5

[issue22096] Argument Clinic: add ability to specify an existing impl function

2014-07-28 Thread Zachary Ware
New submission from Zachary Ware: It would be nice to be able to specify an existing function as the _impl function, for cases like winreg.OpenKey and OpenKeyEx which are the same function by different names, or _winapi.GetCurrentProcess, whose impl function is return GetCurrentProcess().