[Python-Dev] PEP 3102: Keyword-only arguments (original) (raw)

Steven Bethard steven.bethard at gmail.com
Sun Apr 30 03:50:10 CEST 2006

On 4/29/06, Talin <talin at acm.org> wrote:

PEP: 3102 Title: Keyword-Only Arguments Version: RevisionRevisionRevision Last-Modified: DateDateDate Author: Talin Status: Draft Type: Standards Content-Type: text/plain Created: 22-Apr-2006 Python-Version: 3.0 Post-History:

Abstract This PEP proposes a change to the way that function arguments are assigned to named parameter slots. In particular, it enables the declaration of "keyword-only" arguments: arguments that can only be supplied by keyword and which will never be automatically filled in by a positional argument.

+1. And I suggest this be re-targeted for Python 2.6. Now all we need is someone to implement this. ;-)

By the way, I thought the "Function Calling Behavior" section was particularly clear. Thanks for that!

STeVe

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