[python-committers] Adding a (small) feature to 3.4 for Argument Clinic: inspect.Signature supporting simple named constants for default values

[Nick Coghlan]

On 7 Jan 2014 07:34, "Ethan Furman" <ethan at stoneleaf.us> wrote:
>
> On 01/06/2014 02:21 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote:
>>
>> On Jan 06, 2014, at 01:34 PM, Larry Hastings wrote:
>>
>>> The thing is, I feel like this is borderline between bug fix and new
feature.
>>> But without adding this, we would make a lot of the Argument Clinic
>>> conversions pretty messy.  So I want to check it in.  I just don't want
to
>>> piss everybody off in the process.
>>>
>>> Can you guys live with this?
>>
>>
>> I sure can.  To me, AC is "the new feature" and as we continue to adopt
it in
>> Python 3.4, we'll find more corner cases like this one.  Better to do
what we
>> can to improve the situation now rather than have to wait until 3.5.
>
>
> Agreed.

Same from me. I see it as similar to ensurepip and the import changes - as
we've been fully incorporating those, we noticed some edge cases and API
issues that we want to tweak before the first release candidate.

Cheers,
Nick.

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