[Python-Dev] python code in argument clinic annotations

[Larry Hastings]

On 01/16/2014 11:46 AM, Yury Selivanov wrote:
> There is just one reason for having it in C --
> having it integrated in the build process,
> so that the generated output/sidefiles
> are not in the repository.

It's possible to integrate Argument Clinic into the build process 
without rewriting it in C.  We could write a small C program that looked 
on your path for a suitable Python 3 interpreter, and ran 
Tools/clinic/clinic.py under that interpreter.  If it failed to find 
such an interpreter it could print a warning message.

Alternatively, we could add a checksum for the Clinic *input* block to 
the output somewhere.  This would give the C tool the ability to check 
and see if the Clinic input had changed, and only bother to run 
clinic.py if it had.

However, the generated output is still going to be checked in to the 
repository regardless.


//arry/
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