[New-bugs-announce] [issue40181] IDLE: remove positional-only note from calltips

[Terry J. Reedy]

New submission from Terry J. Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu>:

IDLE calltips currently contain "  # '/' marks preceding args as positional-only." when the signature contains '/' because, before 3.8, '/' was only used by argument clinic and only displayed by inspect.signature.  Now that '/' is a regular part of Python, the special note is not needed for the 3.8+ versions of IDLE.

The get_argspec docstring also needs updating, and I think the body has some redundant code.  The main test change needed is to remove the '/' note from expected returns.  I may first isolate any affected tests to minimize the difference between 3.7 and 3.8-9 code, so as to minimize the possibility of merge conflicts in backports.

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messages: 365777
nosy: terry.reedy
priority: normal
severity: normal
stage: test needed
status: open
title: IDLE: remove positional-only note from calltips
type: enhancement
versions: Python 3.7, Python 3.8, Python 3.9

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