[Python-Dev] Surely "nullable" is a reasonable name?

[Nick Coghlan]

On 22 April 2015 at 03:31, Larry Hastings <larry at hastings.org> wrote:
>
> On 04/21/2015 04:50 AM, Tal Einat wrote:
>
> As for the default set of accepted types for various convertors, if we
> could choose any syntax we liked, something like "accept=+{NoneType}"
> would be much better IMO.
>
>
> In theory Argument Clinic could use any syntax it likes.  In practice, under
> the covers we tease out one or two bits of non-Python syntax, then run
> ast.parse over it.  Saved us a lot of work.
>
> "s: accept={str,NoneType}" is a legal Python parameter declaration; "s:
> accept+={NoneType}" is not.  If I could figure out a clean way to hack in
> support for += I'll support it.  Otherwise you'll be forced to spell it out.

Ellipsis seems potentially useful here to mean "whatever the default
accepted types are": "s: accept={...,NoneType}"

My other question would be whether we can use "None" in preference to
NoneType, as PEP 484 does:
https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0484/#using-none

Cheers,
Nick.

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