Following up on a conversation on python-dev from last December:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2012-December/122920.htmlI'm pleased to announced PEP 436, proposing Argument Clinic for adoption into the CPython source tree.
http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0436/Argument Clinic itself hasn't changed much in the intervening three months; I did add a prototype extension mechanism for adding user types at runtime, and I allow writing the generated code to a separate file. The PEP is adopted out of the "clinic.txt" included with the prototype, updated and with a new rationale.
For what it's worth, the bug tracker issue is here: http://bugs.python.org/issue16612I'm guessing python-dev is the right place for the ten-thousand-foot view topics: the merits of the specific proposed DSL syntax, the possible runtime extension API, and the approach as a whole. So for now let's just use the bug tracker issue for code reviews and the like.
The prototype implementation is checked in here: https://bitbucket.org/larry/python-clinic/ as well as being posted to the above issue on the tracker in patch form. I look forward to your comments, //arry/
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