[Python-Dev] Status of the Argument Clinic DSL

[Brett Cannon]

On Thu, 4 Aug 2016 at 15:47 Alexander Belopolsky <
alexander.belopolsky at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 2:19 PM, Larry Hastings <larry at hastings.org> wrote:
>
>> AFAIK the Clinic DSL can handle all of Python's C extensions.  I have no
>> plans to "revise the whole approach"; if someone else does I haven't heard
>> about it.
>
>
> I was just wondering that with so much effort to bring typing to the
> mainstream, a more "pythonic" DSL may emerge for describing the signatures
> of functions in C modules.
>
> BTW, is there any document describing the syntax of "text signatures" such
> as:
>
> >>> os.rename.__text_signature__
> '($module, /, src, dst, *, src_dir_fd=None, dst_dir_fd=None)'
>
> ?
>
> What does the "$module, /," part mean?
>

Don't remember what the $module means but the / means positional-only
arguments.
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