[Python-Dev] The docstring hack for signature information has to go
"Martin v. Löwis"
martin at v.loewis.de
Wed Feb 5 14:52:38 CET 2014
Am 03.02.14 15:43, schrieb Larry Hastings:
> A: We create a PyMethodDefEx structure with an extra field: "const char
> *signature". We add a new METH_SIGNATURE (maybe just METH_SIG?) flag to
> the flags, indicating that this is an extended structure. When
> iterating over the PyMethodDefs, we know how far to advance the pointer
> based on this flag.
>
> B: Same as A, but we add three unused pointers (void *reserved1 etc) to
> PyMethodDefEx to give us some room to grow.
>
> C: Same as A, but we add two fields to PyMethodDefEx. The second new
> field identifies the "version" of the structure, telling us its size
> somehow. Like the lStructSize field of the OPENFILENAME structure in
> Win32. I suspect YAGNI.
D: Add a new type slot for method signatures. This would be a
tp_signature field, along with a new slot id Py_tp_signature. The
signature field itself could be
struct PyMethodSignature {
char *method_name;
char *method_signature;
};
Regards,
Martin
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