Re: Keyword arguments and python simpletons

On 12 May 2010 11:05, <wlavrijsen_at_lbl.gov> wrote:
> Sebastien,
>
>> but one is only interested in the names provided by the header (as
>> this is the thing that rootcint, gccxml or clang/cling is fed with)
>
> yes, the python user is, but my point is that since these are irrelevant
> to the C++ developer it is hard to imagine anyone would want to rely on
> them being properly maintained.
>

I agree it would be difficult to have a reliable way to allow pyroot to do this at run time. In principle (for some cases) the docstrings have enough information but parsing that at runtime (and then doing some magic) is probably very error prone.

Wim, could you point me towards where the check for the non empty keyword argument would be done? I will have a go at implementing it and submit a patch.

Tim

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>           Wim
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