[Python-Dev] PEP: 576 Title: Rationalize Built-in function classes (original) (raw)

Stefan Behnel stefan_ml at behnel.de
Sat May 19 08:48:26 EDT 2018

mark schrieb am 19.05.2018 um 11:15:

At the language summit this year, there was some discussion of PEP 575. I wanted to simplify the PEP, but rather than modify that PEP, Nick Coghlan encouraged me to write an alternative PEP instead.

PEP 576 aims to fulfill the same goals as PEP 575, but with fewer changes and to be fully backwards compatible. The PEP can be viewed here: https://github.com/python/peps/blob/master/pep-0576.rst

Quick question, since the PEP doesn't say it explicitly. I assume that the builtin function type would be subclassable, right? That would suggest that it also needs a type flag bit for fast type checking.

Basically, subclassing still seems necessary in order to support closure state, non-constant default arguments, etc.

Stefan

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