[Python-Dev] A Desperate Plea For Introspection (aka: BDFAP Needed)

Fri Jun 22 22:20:52 CEST 2012

On 6/22/2012 3:24 PM, Yury Selivanov wrote:
> On 2012年06月22日, at 3:18 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:

>> Hardly, because that's not valid syntax. I'd write name(arg1, *,
>> arg2=<default>).
>> Like
>> replace(*, name=<default>, kind=<default>, default=<default>,
> annotation=<default>) -> Parameter
>> or
>> replace(*, name=<optional>, kind=<optional>, default=<optional>,
> annotation=<optional>) -> Parameter

I do not undertand the 'or'. I hope you mean default argument 
expressions in the standard manner rather than '<default>' or '<optional>'.
-- 
Terry Jan Reedy