[python-committers] Adding a (small) feature to 3.4 for Argument Clinic: inspect.Signature supporting simple named constants for default values

[Ethan Furman]

On 01/06/2014 02:21 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> On Jan 06, 2014, at 01:34 PM, Larry Hastings wrote:
>
>> The thing is, I feel like this is borderline between bug fix and new feature.
>> But without adding this, we would make a lot of the Argument Clinic
>> conversions pretty messy.  So I want to check it in.  I just don't want to
>> piss everybody off in the process.
>>
>> Can you guys live with this?
>
> I sure can.  To me, AC is "the new feature" and as we continue to adopt it in
> Python 3.4, we'll find more corner cases like this one.  Better to do what we
> can to improve the situation now rather than have to wait until 3.5.

Agreed.

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~Ethan~