[Python-Dev] PEP 362 open issues (original) (raw)

Brett Cannon brett at python.org
Thu Aug 24 02:30:55 CEST 2006

On 8/23/06, Georg Brandl <g.brandl at gmx.net> wrote:

Brett Cannon wrote: > I have been spending my Google sprint time on writing and implementing > PEP 362 (http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0362/), which finally > defines Signature objects for functions. With the implementation at a > place I am happy with, I wanted to ask about the open issues with the PEP. While reading the PEP, I stumbled over the description of the bind() method. As I understand the implementation patch, the parameter names will be keys and the arguments values in the resulting dictionary, but this sentence looks to me as if it describes it the opposite way (it also doesn't clarify that "parameter" means "parameter name"): * bind(*args, **kwargs) -> dict Create a mapping from argument to parameter for the signature (see Open Issues for question of how to handle tuples).

You're right, it's a typo.

Another question: could it be helpful to make Parameter.default_value a

weak reference?

Perhaps, but I don't think it is necessarily required. I can change it if others want to go that way, but for now I am happy with the way it is.

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