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Author larry
Recipients benjamin.peterson, eric.araujo, larry, ncoghlan, pitrou, python-dev, scoder, terry.reedy, yselivanov
Date 2014-02-03.08:45:57
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> What I'm saying is that the existing function introspection API
> would have provided a much better way to do these things,
> and that it's good to finally have the meta data available in the
> source code so that that API can be made available at some point.

What "existing function introspection API"?  I wasn't aware there was an existing mechanism to provide signature metadata for builtin functions.
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2014-02-03 08:45:57larrysetrecipients: + larry, terry.reedy, ncoghlan, pitrou, scoder, benjamin.peterson, eric.araujo, python-dev, yselivanov
2014-02-03 08:45:57larrysetmessageid: <1391417157.42.0.336317136734.issue17159@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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