[Python-Dev] signature for PySide ready (original) (raw)

Yury Selivanov yselivanov.ml at gmail.com
Fri Aug 18 12:20:20 EDT 2017

Hi Christian,

On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 4:41 AM, Christian Tismer <tismer at stackless.com> wrote:

Hi friends,

in the last months, I have developed signature support for PySide. The module creates the same signatures as are known for plain Python functions. As a non-trivial addition, the module also handles multiple signatures as a list. I consider this extension to PySide as quite essential and actually more important as for Python itself, because type info is rather crucial for PySide. Initially, I wrote this as a pure Python 3 extension. Then I was "asked" to port this to Python 2 too, which was quite hairy to do. I'm not sure if I should have done that. Before I publish this module, I want to ask: -------------------------------------------- Is it a bad idea to support signatures in Python 2 as well?

There's a backport of signature API to Python 2. Although last time I checked it was fairly outdated.

Do I introduce a feature that should not exist in Python 2? Or is it fine to do so?

Please let me know your opinion, I am happy with any result.

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