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7 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Wirawan Purwanto
5666280a45 * Alias "|" operator to "+" operator. 2012-02-09 15:02:38 -05:00
wirawan
8ebf1e422e * Add important warning. Maybe in the future we need to use operator "|"
and append the search paths to _list_?
2011-09-19 20:06:45 +00:00
wirawan
6fb10829e0 * Added Parameters._get_() method. 2011-09-12 21:58:43 +00:00
wirawan
aad559d86b * Class Parameters: important change of behavior for more safety to avoid
potential confusion.

* Detail of the important changes:

  1) by default now the function's local variables are not included in the
     lookup chain. Use _localvars_ flag if you insist on doing that; but
     be aware of the caveat (see Parameters' documentation).

  2) the default _kwparam_ and _userparam_ names are now passed on to the
     child Parameters object instead of the override values given through
     the _create_ function argument.
     Rationale: To begin with, the default names defined during the creation
     of the parent Parameters object should be used by *all* the relevant
     functions.
     Overrides should be regarded as exceptional rather than common cases.

  3) Value overrides (_kwparam_, _userparam_, etc.) in _create_ must now
     be specified in keyword=value manner rather than as positional argument.
     Rationale: Those overrides must be made conspicuous.
     The keyword=value approach also makes the code more resilient to minor
     API changes.
     All unnamed parameters are supposed to be low-priority defaults.
2011-09-09 18:58:48 +00:00
wirawan
4aff740f55 * Parameters value lookup: use try..except EAFP rather LBYL approach.
* Add simple checks for _p, _opts_ default arguments in case they are not
  indexable/dict-like objects. This is needed to avoid bizzare error messages
  later then the Parameters object is in use.
2011-09-07 15:05:54 +00:00
wirawan
6d043f6721 * Simple clarification on example. 2011-03-10 19:20:35 +00:00
wirawan
6641410d89 * Moving the fancy "Parameters" parameter lookup class to its own module.
From now on, use it as wpylib.params.flat class.
2010-09-30 16:16:38 +00:00