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

R. David Murray rdmurray at bitdance.com
Fri Jun 8 02:40:00 CEST 2012

On Thu, 07 Jun 2012 17:39:54 -0400, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:

On 6/7/2012 4:54 PM, Yury Selivanov wrote:

> I think we'll add a 'format' method to the Signature, that will work > like 'inspect.formatargspec'. 'Signature.str' will use it with > default parameters/formatters. Great. If I don't like the default, I could customize. > I'm not sure how repr should look like. Maybe default repr > (object.repr) is good enough. repr = str is common.

I think you meant str = repr. repr is the more fundamental of the two, and if there is no str, it defaults to repr.

IMO the repr should make it clear that it is a signature object somehow.

--David

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