[Python-Dev] Re: PEP 282 comments (original) (raw)

Jeremy Hylton jeremy@zope.com
Thu, 21 Mar 2002 19:17:27 -0500

"TM" == Trent Mick <trentm@ActiveState.com> writes:

TM> [Jeremy Hylton wrote]

Why do you need **kwargs at all? Can't the interface specify the complete set of optional arguments explicitly?

TM> If, as I said, we want to keep the '*args' argument, how do we TM> explicitly specify an 'exc_info' argument?

TM> def info(self, msg, *args, exc_info=None): TM> ^------- SyntaxError

def info(self, msg, excinfo=None, *args): ... return msg, exc_info, args ... info(1, 2, 3, 4, 5) (2, 3, (4, 5))

Jeremy