[Python-Dev] __signature__ for PySide ready

[Christian Tismer]

Hi Nick,

On 19.08.17 09:37, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> On 19 August 2017 at 02:55, Jelle Zijlstra <jelle.zijlstra at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2017-08-18 18:20 GMT+02:00 Yury Selivanov <yselivanov.ml at gmail.com>:
>>> There's a backport of signature API to Python 2.  Although last time I
>>> checked it was fairly outdated.
>>>
>> I wrote a backport earlier this year: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/inspect2.
> 
> Nice.
> 
> Yury was probably referring to https://funcsigs.readthedocs.io/, which
> is a partial backport specifically of inspect.Signature and friends.
> 
> Either way, the answer to Christian's original question is that "Yes,
> supporting __signature__ is also useful in Python 2.x", as even though
> the native inspect module doesn't support it, 3rd party backports do.

I did not use a backport, but simply hacked it together, myself:

- Take the signature part of Python 3.6 out,
- Adjust the syntax to Python 2.7.

The hairy part was my way to create the PySide PyCFunction objects in
a compatible way like Python 3 does it: the handling of PyCFunction's
"self" parameter is different (holds type info, Python 2 does not).
That needed much more internal knowledge as intended...

Well, I thought the existence of __signature__ might be a good reason
to switch to Python 3, but if I support Python 2, the advantage
is gone. But if it's ok with you, then I'll publish both versions.

Thanks a lot for the feedback.

Ciao - Chris

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