[Python-Dev] Python Library Addition: First-class Procedure Signatures

[Steven Bethard]

On Nov 14, 2007 1:18 PM, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
> On Nov 14, 2007 10:30 AM, Isaac Morland <ijmorlan at cs.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
> > So I wrote a Signature class.  Instances of the class represent all the
> > information present between the parentheses of a procedure definition.
> > Properties are provided to get the information out, and an expand_args method
> > can be called to expand arguments into a dictionary.  This expand_args method
> > implements (if I've done it right) the argument conversion part of section
> > 5.3.4 of the Python Reference Manual (http://docs.python.org/ref/calls.html).
>
> As Collin already pointed out, it sounds like you want PEP 362 to get
> into the stdlib.  I have not made a big push to try to get my existing
> implementation into Python 2.6/3.0, but I plan to at some point.

Every time I read PEP 362, I get lost in the details.  When you get
around to working on it again, could you add a bunch of examples?
That would make it much easier to tell why we want all those objects
and attributes.

FWIW, Isaac's version of bind() that returns a regular str->object
dict is all I've ever needed in my own code.

STeVe
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