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

Larry Hastings larry at hastings.org
Tue Jan 14 21:54:31 CET 2014

On 01/14/2014 12:48 PM, Zachary Ware wrote:

On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 2:22 PM, Larry Hastings <larry at hastings.org> wrote:

I have now received exactly zero feedback about the prototype, which suggests people aren't using it. Oops, I had half a post written about this two days ago, but never got it posted. I did some experimenting on winreg.c (see http://hg.python.org/sandbox/zware/file/prototypeclinic/PC/winreg.c), and I have to say I really really like having most of the output shunted down to the bottom of the file.

I will consider you a +1 on the "buffer" approach and NaN on the other approaches.

One thing that I could see being useful (though possibly not easy) is the ability to dump a buffer "late"; for example, near the top of the file:

/*[clinic input] destination prototypes new buffer output parserprototype prototypes dump prototypes later [clinic start generated code]*/ Then process the file, filling the prototypes buffer as we go. At the end of the file, go back and dump the buffer in that output block.

That wouldn't be too hard. But conceptually it would make Clinic much more complicated. For example, I suggest that "later" is a confusing name, because the output will actually happen earlier in the file.
"If it's hard to explain, it may be a bad idea." ;-)

//arry/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/attachments/20140114/15efcc82/attachment.html>

More information about the Python-Dev mailing list