Julien Palard added the comment: > You propose an automatic conversion of "None" into "-1"? That's awful. > Please don't commit that patch to CPython.
Not really, I propose a way to do it with AC when needed. And the AC semantics introduced are not "Automatic conversion of None into -1" but "automatic "don't touch the C default" when the python default is given", so it's reusable for other values: something: Py_ssize_t(c_default="-1") = None something: Py_ssize_t(c_default="0") = None something: Py_ssize_t(c_default="42") = None … And this semantic can be extended to other types too if needed: something: a_type(c_default="a_c_side_default_value") = None To get "a_c_side_default_value" when None is given. I however did not introduced a way to keep the C default value by using something else than None in the Python side: - I'm not sure this is usefull to allow it but it can still be implemented if needed - Limiting to None permits to keep a type check so ``something: Py_ssize_t(c_default="-1") = "bar"`` will still fail at clinic.py runtime. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue28933> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com