[Python-Dev] Request review of bpo-34125/GH-8416

[Jeroen Demeyer]

The gist of bpo-34125 is that the following two statements behave 
differently with respect to sys.setprofile() profiling:

 >>> list.append([], None)

 >>> list.append([], None, **{})

More precisely: the former call is profiled, but the latter is not. The 
fix at GH-8416 is simply to make this consistent by also profiling the 
latter.

Victor Stinner did not want to accept the pull request because he wanted 
"a wider discussion on function calls". I think that GH-8416 is a simple 
bugfix which can be merged anyway and which won't make future 
"discussions on function calls" any harder.

In any case, it would be good to have any *decision* (accepted or 
rejected) on that PR. I find the current uncertainty worse than a 
decision either way. Right now, my reference implementation of PEP 580 
conflicts with that branch and I would like to resolve that conflict 
after GH-8416 has been decided.

Links:
https://bugs.python.org/issue34125
https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/8416


Thanks,
Jeroen Demeyer.