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Thu Jun 7 14:04:20 CEST 2012 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2012-June/120027.html

Nick Coghlan wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 8:38 AM, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:
>> Brett Cannon wrote:
>>> This is also Python, the language that assumes everyone is an consenting
>>> adult.
>>
>> Exactly, which is why I'm not asking for __signature__ to be immutable. Who
>> knows, despite Larry's skepticism (and mine!), perhaps there is a use-case
>> for __signature__ being modified that we haven't thought of yet.
>> But that's not really the point. It may be that nobody will be stupid enough
>> to mangle __signature__, and inspect.getfullargspec becomes redundant.
> 
> I've presented use cases for doing this already. Please stop calling me stupid.

I'm sorry Nick, I missed your email and my choice of words was poor. Please 
accept my apologies.

-- 
Steven

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[Python-Dev] Updated PEP 362 (Function Signature Object)