http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/c7233921b612 changeset: 88868:c7233921b612 user: Yury Selivanov <yselivanov@sprymix.com> date: Fri Jan 31 15:30:30 2014 -0500 summary: inspect: Add some comments in Parameter.__eq__ method files: Lib/inspect.py | 11 +++++++++++ 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/Lib/inspect.py b/Lib/inspect.py --- a/Lib/inspect.py +++ b/Lib/inspect.py @@ -1905,6 +1905,17 @@ id(self), self.name) def __eq__(self, other): + # NB: We deliberately do not compare '_partial_kwarg' attributes + # here. Imagine we have a following situation: + # + # def foo(a, b=1): pass + # def bar(a, b): pass + # bar2 = functools.partial(bar, b=1) + # + # For the above scenario, signatures for `foo` and `bar2` should + # be equal. '_partial_kwarg' attribute is an internal flag, to + # distinguish between keyword parameters with defaults and + # keyword parameters which got their defaults from functools.partial return (issubclass(other.__class__, Parameter) and self._name == other._name and self._kind == other._kind and -- Repository URL: http://hg.python.org/cpython