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From: Andrew Burgess <aburgess@redhat.com>
To: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>,
	Andrew Burgess via Gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Python API: Accept named arguments in a few more places
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2023 15:11:11 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ile9ayo0.fsf@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mt3na3v0.fsf@tromey.com>

Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com> writes:

>>>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Burgess via Gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org> writes:
>
> Andrew> As this function takes two arguments I though that accepting named
> Andrew> arguments might be a nice improvement.
>
> We actually document this.
>
>        Functions and methods which have two or more optional arguments allow
>     them to be specified using keyword syntax.  This allows passing some
>     optional arguments while skipping others.  Example:
>     'gdb.some_function ('foo', bar = 1, baz = 2)'.
>
> Andrew> Then for completeness I updated the other two methods in py-unwind.c
> Andrew> that also didn't accept named arguments, even though these functions
> Andrew> only take a single argument I think taking named arguments is in
> Andrew> general better, and consistency is good too.
>
> It seems reasonable to me; certainly doesn't hurt anything.
>
> This all looks fine to me.  Thanks for doing it.
>
> Reviewed-By: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>

Pushed.

Thanks,
Andrew


      reply	other threads:[~2023-04-06 14:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-03-30 12:10 Andrew Burgess
2023-03-30 12:10 ` [PATCH 1/4] gdb/python: have UnwindInfo.add_saved_register accept named args Andrew Burgess
2023-03-30 14:08   ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-04-06 14:10     ` Andrew Burgess
2023-03-30 12:10 ` [PATCH 2/4] gdb/python: have PendingFrame methods accept keyword arguments Andrew Burgess
2023-03-30 14:13   ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-03-30 12:10 ` [PATCH 3/4] gdb/python: convert Frame.read_register to take named arguments Andrew Burgess
2023-03-30 14:10   ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-03-30 12:10 ` [PATCH 4/4] gdb/python: allow Frame.read_var to accept " Andrew Burgess
2023-03-30 14:11   ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-04-04 18:39 ` [PATCH 0/4] Python API: Accept named arguments in a few more places Tom Tromey
2023-04-06 14:11   ` Andrew Burgess [this message]

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