[Python-3000] Stars (original) (raw)

Raymond Hettinger raymond.hettinger at verizon.net
Thu Mar 1 07:11:10 CET 2007


What we have now: def f(a, b, *args, **dict(c=1)): # Yuck!

What we really need: def f(a, b, *args, **, c=1): # Two stars spell dictionary.

What I heard was planned instead: def f(a, b, *args, *, c=1): # One star spells iterable.

Two stars make a nice visual separator. One star following *args just looks funny,

Raymond

P.S. I would actually like to see this in Py2.6. It doesn't conflict with anything else and solves an annoying problem.



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