Message 64910 - Python tracker

Author	rhettinger
Recipients	belopolsky, benjamin.peterson, gvanrossum, nedbat, rhettinger
Date	2008-04-04.01:39:57
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It's definitely a bug, but I think the reason it has been around so long is that no-one has offerred a clean solution. I was hoping for something along the lines of functions raising an ArgumentError (a new subclass of TypeError) that could be trapped by the __call__ slot for bound methods and then reraised with a new argument count. The key is to find a very lightweight and minimal solution; otherwise, we should just live with it for another 18 years :- )

It's definitely a bug, but I think the reason it has been around so 
long is that no-one has offerred a clean solution.  

I was hoping for something along the lines of functions raising an 
ArgumentError (a new subclass of TypeError) that could be trapped by 
the __call__ slot for bound methods and then reraised with a new 
argument count.  The key is to find a *very* lightweight and minimal 
solution; otherwise, we should just live with it for another 18 years :-
)

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2008-04-04 01:39:59	rhettinger	set	spambayes_score: 0.00418719 -> 0.00418719 recipients: + rhettinger, gvanrossum, belopolsky, nedbat, benjamin.peterson
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2008-04-04 01:39:57	rhettinger	create