[Python-checkins] r43341 - in python/trunk: Lib/test/test_grammar.py Lib/test/test_inspect.py Python/ast.c

Michael Hudson mwh at python.net
Thu Apr 6 23:25:50 CEST 2006


"Guido van Rossum" <guido at python.org> writes:

> Well, obviously (:-) the intention was that def f((x)):  is the same
> as def f(x):  just like the expression (x) is the same as the
> expression x.

Though many moons ago bytecodehacks.macro exploited the fact that they
are compiled differently :)

Cheers,
mwh

-- 
  This makes it possible to pass complex object hierarchies to
  a C coder who thinks computer science has made no worthwhile
  advancements since the invention of the pointer.
                                       -- Gordon McMillan, 30 Jul 1998


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