[Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] peps: New DSL syntax and slightly changed semantics for the Argument Clinic DSL.

Larry Hastings larry at hastings.org
Mon Mar 18 23:43:10 CET 2013


On 03/18/2013 02:29 AM, Ronald Oussoren wrote:
> On 18 Mar, 2013, at 8:16, Larry Hastings <larry at hastings.org> wrote:
>> This has some consequences.  For example, inspect.getfullargspec, inspect.Signature, and indeed types.FunctionObject and types.CodeObject have no currently defined mechanism for communicating that a parameter is positional-only.
> inspect.Signature does have support for positional-only arguments, they have inspect.Parameter.POSITIONAL_ONLY as their kind.

You're right!  And I should have remembered that--I was one of the 
authors of the inspect.Signature PEP.  It's funny, it can represent 
something that it has no way of inferring ;-)


//arry/
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