[Python-Dev] python code in argument clinic annotations

[Yury Selivanov]

Guido,

On Thursday, January 16, 2014, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 11:15 AM, Yury Selivanov
> <yselivanov.ml at gmail.com <javascript:;>> wrote:
> > The whole discussion of whether clinic should write its output
> > right in the source file (buffered or not), or in a separate sidefile,
> > started because we currently cannot run the clinic during the build
> > process, since it’s written in python.
>
> But that's why the output is checked in. It's the same with the parser
> IIRC. (And yes, there's a bootstrap issue -- but that's solved by
> using an older Python version.)
>
> > But what if, at some point, someone implements the Tools/clinic.py in
> > pure C, so that integrating it directly in the build process will be
> > possible?  In this case, the question is — should we use python code
> > in the argument clinic DSL?
> >
> > If we keep it strictly declarative, then, at least, we’ll have this
> > possibility in the future.
>
> Sounds like a pretty unlikely scenario. Why would you implement clinic in
> C?


Unlikely, yes.

There is just one reason for having it in C --
having it integrated in the build process,
so that the generated output/sidefiles
are not in the repository.

Yury
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