On 14 July 2016 at 08:46, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 7:15 AM, Martin Teichmann
> wrote:
>> Another small change should be noted here: in the current implementation of
>> CPython, ``type.__init__`` explicitly forbids the use of keyword arguments,
>> while ``type.__new__`` a
Hi Guido, Hi list,
Thanks for the nice review! I applied followed up your ideas and put
it into a github pull request: https://github.com/python/peps/pull/53
Soon we'll be working there, until then, some responses to your comments:
> I wonder if this should be renamed to __set_name__ or somethin
Hi Nick, hi list,
> It would be worth spelling out the end result of the new behaviour in
> the PEP to make sure it's what we want. Trying to reason about how
> that code works is difficult, but looking at some class definition
> scenarios and seeing how they behave with the old semantics and the
I just reviewed the changes you made, I like __set_name__(). I'll just
wait for your next update, incorporating Nick's suggestions. Regarding
who merges PRs to the PEPs repo, since you are the author the people
who merge don't pass any judgment on the changes (unless it doesn't
build cleanly or may
I think this and similar issues suffer from a lack of people who have
both the time and the understanding to review patches and answer
questions of this nature.
To the OP: I would recommend not depending on the presence of
__qualname__ in the locals, as another compiler/interpreter may come
up wit
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On 07/14/2016 11:47 AM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> If you intend a PR as a base for discussion you can add a comment
> saying e.g. "Don't merge yet". If you call out @gvanrossum, GitHub
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FWIW, I often use a Gi
On Thu, 14 Jul 2016 at 11:05 Tres Seaver wrote:
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> On 07/14/2016 11:47 AM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
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> > If you intend a PR as a base for discussion you can add a comment
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On 07/14/2016 02:10 PM, Brett Cannon wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Jul 2016 at 11:05 Tres Seaver
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>> On 07/14/2016 11:47 AM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
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>>> If you intend a PR as a base for discuss
