Paul Moore wrote:
2009/2/2 Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com>:
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 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) Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia ---------------------------------------------------------------