[Python-Dev] pprint(iterator)

[Paul Moore]

2009/2/2 Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com>:
> Paul Moore wrote:
>> 2009/2/2 Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com>:
>>> A trio of patches that:
>>> 1. promoted simplegeneric from pkgutil to functools (with appropriate
>>> documentation and tests)
>>> 2. changed pkgutil to use functools.simplegeneric instead of its current
>>>  internal version
>>> 3. updated pprint to be a generic function (and hence more easily
>>> extensible via the ABC mechanism, while still keeping it's current
>>> special cases as necessary)
>>>
>>> would certainly be an interesting thing to see (with patch 3 being the
>>> poster child for why patch 1 is a good idea).
>>
>> I'll see what I can do. I can't promise much for (3) as I don't
>> personally have a need for it, so my understanding of the use cases is
>> limited at best. But (1) and (2) should be possible.
>>
>> Can I assign the patches to you (for review, at least)?
>
> Sure - I've had plenty to do with functools in the past, and will no
> doubt have plenty to do with it in the future.

http://bugs.python.org/issue5135

A single patch covering (1) and (2).

Paul.