[Python-3000] PEP 3113 (Removal of Tuple Parameter Unpacking) (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Sat Mar 3 02:28:40 CET 2007

On 3/2/07, Collin Winter <collinw at gmail.com> wrote:

On 3/2/07, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote: > Has anyone tried to create a 2to3 transformer for this? I think it > should be possible, although there are a few warts (like inserting the > new code after the docstring, and how to come up with names for the > anonymous tuple(s), and having to do it for potentially any number of > arguments. Still, it would require no dataflow analysis, and the > except transformer already has a similar statement insertion. So I > think it's doable.

I can take a crack at this. I had to do similar things for the raise fixer before switching it over to use withtraceback().

That would be great! You may end up adding some generally useful code for inserting statements into a block...

-- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)

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