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Tue Feb 10 01:30:08 CET 2015 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2015-February/138094.html

What's an example of a way inspect.signature must change?  I thought PEP 
448 added new unpacking shortcuts which (for example) change the 
*caller* side of a function call.  I didn't realize it impacted the 
*callee* side too.

//arry/

On 02/09/2015 03:14 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Feb 2015 08:43:53 +1000
> Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> For example, the potential for arcane call arguments suggests the need for
>> a PEP 8 addition saying "first standalone args, then iterable expansions,
>> then mapping expansions", even though syntactically any order would now be
>> permitted at call time.
> There are other concerns:
>
> - inspect.signature() must be updated to cover the new call
>    possibilities
>
> - function call performance must not be crippled by the new
>    possibilities
>
> Regards
>
> Antoine.
>
>
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