[Python-Dev] an alternative to embedding policy in PEP 418 (original) (raw)

Victor Stinner victor.stinner at gmail.com
Wed Apr 4 13:04:13 CEST 2012


2012/4/4 Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net>:

On Wed, 4 Apr 2012 02:02:12 +0200 Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at gmail.com> wrote:

> Lennart Regebro wrote: >> Well, getclock(monotonic=True, highres=True) would be a vast >> improvement over getclock(MONOTONIC|HIRES).

I don't like this keyword API because you have to use a magically marker (True). Why True? What happens if I call getclock(monotonic=False) or getclock(monotonic="yes")? Since when are booleans magical? Has this thread gone totally insane?

It depends if the option supports other values. But as I understood, the keyword value must always be True.

Victor



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