[Python-Dev] PEP 318 restrictions on elements (original) (raw)

[Python-Dev] PEP 318 - generality of list; restrictions on elements

Greg Ewing greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Mon Mar 8 19:17:59 EST 2004


Mon, 08 Mar 2004 16:20:33 -0500:

I agree. FWIW, I think the list of things inside the square brackets should be simple identifiers

That would be too restrictive, I think. I can imagine users like the PyObjC people wanting to have parameterized wrappers to express things like external function signatures.

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