[Python-Dev] Argument Clinic: what to do with builtins with non-standard signatures?

[Nick Coghlan]

On 25 January 2014 19:20, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 25 January 2014 17:44, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 25 January 2014 01:07, Larry Hastings <larry at hastings.org> wrote:
>>> c) Functions that accept an 'int' when they mean 'boolean' (aka the
>>>    "ints instead of bools" problem)
>>>
>>>    Solution:
>>>      1) Use "bool".
>>>      2) Use "int", and I'll go relax Argument Clinic so they
>>>         can use bool values as defaults for int parameters.
>>
>> If the temptation is to use True or False as the default, then I think
>> that's a clear argument that these should be accepting "bool".
>> However, expanding the accepted types is also clearly a new feature
>> that would need a "versionchanged" in the docs for all affected
>> functions, so I think these changes also belong in the "conversion
>> implies semantic changes, so leave until 3.5" category.
>
> I changed my mind (slightly) on this one. For 3.4, we can go with
> converting the current semantics (i.e. using "i"), and tweaking
> argument clinic to all bool defaults for integers.

"allow bool defaults", rather.

Cheers,
Nick.


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