[Python-Dev] Changing Clinic's output (original) (raw)

Mark Lawrence breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk
Tue Jan 7 21:46:41 CET 2014

On 07/01/2014 19:53, Antoine Pitrou wrote:

Hello, Several core developers a bit unhappy with the way Argument Clinic currently scatters generated code into hand-written C modules. The opinion is that it makes C files more confusing and annoying to navigate through. Several solutions have been proposed: - move all generated code to separate C files, which would then be #included'd into the main module file - gather all generated code to a single place in the C module file, for example near the end (Larry's "accumulator" idea) - prefix all Clinic-generated lines with a recognizable marker, e.g. "/* AC */" What do you think? Regards Antoine.

Maybe overkill but why not follow 3 with 2 at the end of the file, the marker to be a very clear /* Generated by Argument Clinic - DO NOT EDIT BELOW THIS LINE */ or whatever wording is appropriate in this case.

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Mark Lawrence

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