[Python-Dev] Checking in Argument Clinic early?

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Tue, 15 Oct 2013 15:20:34 +0100
Larry Hastings <larry at hastings.org> wrote:
> If you want to struggle through it by hand, read clinic.py (obviously), 
> and then search for the string "clinic" in these files:
> 
>     Modules/_cursesmodule.c
>     Modules/_datetimemodule.c
>     Modules/_dbmmodule.c
>     Modules/posixmodule.c
>     Modules/unicodedata.c
>     Modules/_weakref.c
>     Modules/zlibmodule.c
>     Objects/dictobject.c
>     Objects/unicodeobject.c
> 
> 
> Can you suggest how I could make it easier for you to review?  I'd be 
> happy to make an issue for it, which I probably should do anyway (if 
> there isn't already one).

hg di -r "<latest cpython changeset you merge with>" sounds like a good
approach.

> > Is clinic.py automatically invoked by the build chain? (i.e. Makefile)
> 
> Not at the moment.  I'm a neophyte when it comes to moderne 
> sophisticated Makefile munging.  There's also a chicken-and-egg problem 
> there.

Well, solving the chicken-and-egg problem is what would make the
Makefile integration interesting :-)

Regards

Antoine.