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

Talin talin at acm.org
Sun Apr 30 21:58:52 CEST 2006

Thomas Wouters <thomas python.org> writes:

Pfft, implementation is easy. I have the impression Talin wants to implement it himself, but even if he doesn't, I'm sure I'll have a free week somewhere in the next year and a half in which I can implement it :) It's not that hard a problem, it just requires a lot of reading of the AST and function-call code (if you haven't read it already.)

If someone wants to implement this, feel free - I have no particular feelings of "ownership" over this idea. If someone can do it better than I can, then that's the implementation that should be chosen.

One suggestion I would have would be to implement the two parts of the PEP (keyword-only arguments vs. the 'naked star' syntax) as two separate patches; While there seems to be a relatively wide-spread support for the former, the latter is still somewhat controversial and will require further discussion.

-- Talin

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