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Author serhiy.storchaka
Recipients giampaolo.rodola, pitrou, r.david.murray, rhettinger, serhiy.storchaka, valorien
Date 2016-11-28.10:22:52
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Currently it is not possible to declare a Python function with more than 255 parameters. There were two historical causes of this:

1. Opcodes MAKE_FUNCTION and MAKE_CLOSURE packed the number of default values for positional and keyword parameters in the opcode argument as 8-bit numbers.

2. co_cell2arg was of type "unsigned char *". It's mapped a cell index to an argument index and didn't support arguments with index > 254.

The first limitation is disappeared in 3.6 after changing the format of MAKE_FUNCTION (issue27095). Proposed patch gets rid of the second cause by changing the type of co_cell2arg and removes explicit check in the compiler.
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2016-11-28 10:22:53serhiy.storchakasetrecipients: + serhiy.storchaka, rhettinger, pitrou, giampaolo.rodola, r.david.murray, valorien
2016-11-28 10:22:52serhiy.storchakasetmessageid: <1480328572.98.0.543341002881.issue18896@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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