[Python-Dev] AC Derby and accepting None for optional positional arguments (original) (raw)

Larry Hastings larry at hastings.org
Fri Jan 17 01:01:18 CET 2014

On 01/16/2014 01:08 PM, Ryan Smith-Roberts wrote:

There are two classes of builtins whose signatures do not have these properties. The first is those with very weird signatures, like curses.window.addstr(). It's fine that those don't get converted, they're hopeless.

Speaking as the father of Argument Clinic, I disagree. My goal with Clinic is to convert every function in CPython whose semantics can be expressed with a PyArg_ parsing function.

For example, curses.window.addstr could be converted just fine. Its signature is exactly the same as curses.window.addch which has already been converted.

socket.sendto eludes me for now--but I haven't given up yet.

Don't give up hope,

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