[Python-Dev] Updated PEP 362 (Function Signature Object)

[Nick Coghlan]

On Jun 7, 2012 12:20 AM, "Yury Selivanov" <yselivanov.ml at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> I agree, that we shouldn't make 'functools' be dependent on 'inspect'
module.
> Moreover, this is not even currently possible, as it creates an
import-loop
> that is hard to untie.  But how about the following:
>
> 1. Separate 'Signature' object from 'inspect' module, and move it to a
> private '_signature.py' (that will depend only on
'collections.OrderedDict',
> 'itertools.chain' and 'types')
>
> 2. Publish it in the 'inspect' module
>
> 3. Make 'signature' method to work with any callable
>
> 4. Make 'Signature' class to accept only functions
>
> 5. Import '_signature' in the 'functools', and use 'Signature' class
> directly, as it will accept just plain functions.
>
> Would this work?

Sounds like a good plan to me.

Cheers,
Nick.

--
Sent from my phone, thus the relative brevity :)
>
> -
> Yury
>
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