protocolbuffers / protocolbuffers/protobuf
Message methods not defined as positional arg only
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Description
What version of protobuf and what language are you using?
Version: 33.1
Language: Python
What operating system (Linux, Windows, ...) and version?
OSX
What runtime / compiler are you using (e.g., python version or gcc version)
Python 3.14
What did you do?
Python base message class defined here has certain methods HasField, ClearField etc, defined as functions with keyword arguments. But in reality they are positional args only.
What did you expect to see
Function stubs defined as HasField(self, field_name, /) indicating that they are positional only arguments
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