Request for including python signal helper in gnome 3.6

[Simon Feltman <s feltman gmail com>]

Greetings,

This is a request for an exception to include the python signal helper to pygobject for gnome 3.6:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=434924

The original ticket is over 5 years old. I submitted a first pass patch 6 months ago and a final patch over a month ago and it was finally just looked at and approved, just too late for the upcoming release.

Essentially the feature removes a thorn in the side of GObject signals for python programmers. Currently to create a signal you use a dictionary, specifying types and flags along with a magically named closure:

class Spam(GObject.GObject):

    __gsignals__ = {

        'eggs_thrown': (GObject.SIGNAL_RUN_FIRST, None, (int,))

    }

    def do_eggs_thrown(self, count):

        print "egg count", count

The patch adds a sugary syntax that makes use of python decorators and function annotations available in python 3:

class Spam(GObject.GObject):

    @GObject.Signal

    def eggs_thrown(self, count:int):

        print("egg count", count)

The use of __gsignals__ simply becomes an implementation detail so no C binding code was changed and it is fully backwards compatible.

Thanks,

-Simon