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On Jun 7, 2012 12:20 AM, "Yury Selivanov" <yselivanov.ml@gmail.com> wrote:

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> I agree, that we shouldn't make 'functools' be dependent on 'inspect' module.
> Moreover, this is not even currently possible, as it creates an import-loop
> that is hard to untie. �But how about the following:
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> 1\. Separate 'Signature' object from 'inspect' module, and move it to a
> private '\_signature.py' (that will depend only on 'collections.OrderedDict',
> 'itertools.chain' and 'types')
>
> 2\. Publish it in the 'inspect' module
>
> 3\. Make 'signature' method to work with any callable
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> 4\. Make 'Signature' class to accept only functions
>
> 5\. Import '\_signature' in the 'functools', and use 'Signature' class
> directly, as it will accept just plain functions.
>
> Would this work?

Sounds like a good plan to me.

Cheers,
Nick.

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