Re: [PATCH] Allow conversion of 128-bit integers to Python

[Paul Koning <paulkoning@comcast.net>]

> On Sep 5, 2025, at 1:51 PM, Simon Marchi <simark@simark.ca> wrote:
> 
> On 9/5/25 1:26 PM, Tom Tromey wrote:
>> Simon> If we are forced to use kwargs, I think we might as well just use kwargs
>> Simon> for all the args.
>> 
>> I don't see that this provides a benefit, but I went ahead and did it
>> anyway.  Note that PyObject_Call requires a tuple argument, so we end up
>> creating an empty one.
>> 
>> Simon> Can you add some comments above the Python API calls, just to explain at
>> Simon> a high level what this is doing, so that someone who doesn't know the
>> Simon> Python API by heart can follow what is happening?
>> 
>> I did this.  I'll check it in shortly.
>> 
>> Tom
> 
> I thought that we could avoid creating the tuple.  If we can't then
> it doesn't matter much.  Although the kwargs has the advantage that the
> arguments are named, so it's perhaps a bit more readable.
> 
> Simon

One would expect an empty tuple to be a predefined object available for anyone who needs one.

	paul