-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Nick Coghlan wrote:
Paul Moore wrote:
A trio of patches that: 1. promoted simplegeneric from pkgutil to functools (with appropriate documentation and tests) 2. changed pkgutil to use functools.simplegeneric instead of its current internal version 3. updated pprint to be a generic function (and hence more easily extensible via the ABC mechanism, while still keeping it's current special cases as necessary)
would certainly be an interesting thing to see (with patch 3 being the poster child for why patch 1 is a good idea). I'll see what I can do. I can't promise much for (3) as I don't
2009/2/2 Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com>: personally have a need for it, so my understanding of the use cases is limited at best. But (1) and (2) should be possible.
Can I assign the patches to you (for review, at least)?
Sure - I've had plenty to do with functools in the past, and will no doubt have plenty to do with it in the future.
Given that I believe Guido was one of the folks whose brain was hurt by PJE's attempts to explain PEP 3124, I'll be bringing the discussion back here before committing anything though :)
(and don't worry too much about 3 - it will give me an opportunity to road test the functools patch by using it to refactor pprint and check the performance implications)
/me wonders about the performance-criticality of anything using 'pprint'. Or were you just planning to use it as a means to benchmark the 'simplegeneric' stuff? I would think something with a lot lower intrinsic overhead would be a better benchmark target. Tres. - -- =================================================================== Tres Seaver +1 540-429-0999 tseaver@palladion.com Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFJhu6I+gerLs4ltQ4RAvdcAJ4mFTcdfgG7ZVvdKXulIw+fWgLJxwCeOrTO 9rriK3+zyl4K63doUjbckF4= =++qD -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----