[Python-Dev] Generate all Argument Clinic code into separate files

Serhiy Storchaka storchaka at gmail.com
Sun Feb 22 12:10:36 CET 2015


On 22.02.15 05:03, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> On 22 February 2015 at 06:58, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
>> +1 to moving to a separate file for all .c files. Might be painful now but
>> the long-terms benefits are worth it.
>
> Yeah, agreed. Originally I was a fan of having everything inline so I
> could see them while I was working on the code, but I eventually
> changed my mind to favour making it a clearer build step with a
> separate generated file. I suspect it was a matter of starting to
> trust AC to do the right thing, so having it implicitly asking me to
> check its work all the time ultimately become annoying rather than
> reassuring :)

OK. Opened an issue: https://bugs.python.org/issue23501




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