[Python-Dev] PEP 362 Third Revision

[Ethan Furman]

Yury Selivanov wrote:
> On 2012-06-14, at 11:24 AM, Brett Cannon wrote:
>> On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 9:50 AM, Yury Selivanov <yselivanov.ml at gmail.com> wrote:
>>  
>> [SNIP]
>>  
>> Let's consider replacement of 'Parameter.is_*' set of attributes with
>> a single 'Parameter.kind' attribute, which will have the following
>> possible values: 'positional', 'vararg', 'keyword-only', 'varkwarg'.
>>
>> (I think 'positional' is more intuitive than 'index'?)
>>
>>
>> +1 if this change is made.
> 
> How about adding 'kind' and keeping 'is_*' attributes,
> but making them read-only dynamic properties, i.e.:
> 
>    class Parameter:
>        ...
> 
>        @property
>        def is_vararg(self):
>            return self.kind == 'vararg'
> 
>        ...
> 
> ?

I like it!  +1!

~Ethan~