[Python-Dev] PEP 362 Third Revision (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Thu Jun 14 21:24:03 CEST 2012

On Thu, 14 Jun 2012 09:32:59 -0700 Benjamin Peterson <benjamin at python.org> wrote:

> > How about adding 'kind' and keeping 'is*' attributes, > but making them read-only dynamic properties, i.e.: > >   class Parameter: >       ... > >       @property >       def isvararg(self): >           return self.kind == 'vararg' > >       ... > > ?

Seems a bit bloatly to me. (One way to do it.)

Agreed with Benjamin. Also, the "is_*" attributes are misleading: it looks like they are orthogonal but only one of them can be true at any time.

Regards

Antoine.

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