On Tue, 04 Dec 2012 11:04:09 -0800
Larry Hastings
Along these lines, I've been contemplating proposing that Clinic specifically understand "path" arguments, distinctly from other string arguments, as they are both common and rarely handled correctly. My main fear is that I probably don't understand all their complexities either ;-)
Anyway, this is certainly something we can consider *improving* for Python 3.4. But for now I'm trying to make Clinic an indistinguishable drop-in replacement.
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Naturally I agree Clinic needs more polishing. But the problem you fear is already solved. Clinic allows precisely expressing any existing PyArg_ "format unit"** through a combination of the type of the parameter and its "flags".
Very nice then! Your work is promising, and I hope we'll see a version of it some day in Python 3.4 (or 3.4+k). Regards Antoine.