[Python-3000] PEP3102 Keyword-Only Arguments (original) (raw)

Aahz aahz at pythoncraft.com
Tue Aug 15 05:37:59 CEST 2006

On Mon, Aug 14, 2006, Guido van Rossum wrote:

On 8/14/06, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

However, I'm also wondering if we need an actual syntax, or if a simple convention would do the trick: start the names of positional-only arguments with an underscore. Hm... and perhaps we could forbid keyword arguments starting with an underscore in the call syntax?

Do you mean forbid by convention or syntactically? I'm -1 on the latter; that would be far too much gratuitous code breakage.

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