[Python-Dev] from tuples to immutable dicts (original) (raw)

Brett Cannon bac@OCF.Berkeley.EDU
Sun, 24 Nov 2002 16:52:33 -0800 (PST)

[Martin v. Loewis]

Brett Cannon <bac@OCF.Berkeley.EDU> writes:

> > where fields is a list of (name,doc) tuples. The resulting thing would > > be similar to os.statresult: you need to call it with the mandatory > ^^^^^^^ > You meant "can", right, Martin? Probably an English-language issue: If you call it, the mandatory fields must be present as positional arguments (i.e. you can't call it and omit mandatory fields, or pass them as keyword arguments).

Yeah, that is what I thought you meant.

> I think the idea is good if you can get it to tie directly into C code. > That would get a +1 from me. If not, then +0.

What means to "tie into C code" here?

Somehow being able to use this setup with C extensions; possibly as a direct hook into actual C structs with minimal Python objection conversion fuss. So setting values in the structseq could somehow alter the underlying C struct directly. That is what I took away from one of your earlier comments.

-Brett