[Python-Dev] PEP 362 Third Revision

Thu Jun 14 18:37:37 CEST 2012

Yury Selivanov wrote:
> On 2012年06月14日, at 11:24 AM, Brett Cannon wrote:
>> On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 9:50 AM, Yury Selivanov <yselivanov.ml at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> [SNIP]
>>>> Let's consider replacement of 'Parameter.is_*' set of attributes with
>> a single 'Parameter.kind' attribute, which will have the following
>> possible values: 'positional', 'vararg', 'keyword-only', 'varkwarg'.
>>>> (I think 'positional' is more intuitive than 'index'?)
>>>>>> +1 if this change is made.
>> How about adding 'kind' and keeping 'is_*' attributes,
> but making them read-only dynamic properties, i.e.:
>> class Parameter:
> ...
>> @property
> def is_vararg(self):
> return self.kind == 'vararg'
>> ...
>> ?

I like it! +1!
~Ethan~