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[Python-Dev] __signature__ for PySide ready

[Python-Dev] __signature__ for PySide readyYury Selivanov yselivanov.ml at gmail.com
Fri Aug 18 12:20:20 EDT 2017
Hi Christian,

On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 4:41 AM, Christian Tismer <tismer at stackless.com> wrote:
> Hi friends,
>
> in the last months, I have developed signature support for
> PySide. The module creates the same signatures as are known
> for plain Python functions.
>
> As a non-trivial addition, the module also handles multiple
> signatures as a list. I consider this extension to PySide
> as quite essential and actually more important as for Python
> itself, because type info is rather crucial for PySide.
>
> Initially, I wrote this as a pure Python 3 extension.
> Then I was "asked" to port this to Python 2 too, which was
> quite hairy to do. I'm not sure if I should have done that.
>
> Before I publish this module, I want to ask:
> --------------------------------------------
>
> Is it a bad idea to support signatures in Python 2 as well?

There's a backport of signature API to Python 2.  Although last time I
checked it was fairly outdated.

> Do I introduce a feature that should not exist in Python 2?
> Or is it fine to do so?
>
> Please let me know your opinion, I am happy with any result.
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