[Python-Dev] Status of the Argument Clinic DSL

[Larry Hastings]

On 08/04/2016 09:11 AM, Alexander Belopolsky wrote:
> Furthermore, the 3.4 release notes contain a warning
> saying "The Argument Clinic PEP is not fully up to date with the state
> of the implementation."  It does not look like this situation has
> improved since.

It hasn't.  The PEP lags behind the implementation.  The HOWTO is 
up-to-date though.


> The practical question is: does it make sense to invest time in
> learning the clinic DSL and converting more modules (e.g. datetime) to
> it or it is likely that the whole approach will be revised in the
> future?

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.


//arry/
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