[Python-Dev] PEP 362: 4th edition (original) (raw)

Yury Selivanov yselivanov.ml at gmail.com
Fri Jun 15 23:07:46 CEST 2012

On 2012-06-15, at 4:48 PM, Victor Stinner wrote: [snip]

Would it be possible to only create a signature for builtin the first time that you read its signature attribute? I don't know how to implement such behaviour on a builtin function. I don't know if it's important to decide this right now.

I don't want to create a signature at startup if it is not used, because it would waste memory (as docstrings? :-)).

I think when we have the working mechanism to generate them in place, we can make it lazy.

Or we might drop signature if python -O is used?

No, that'd be unacceptable.

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