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

Aahz aahz at pythoncraft.com
Mon May 1 18:45:40 CEST 2006

On Mon, May 01, 2006, Edward Loper wrote:

But is it necessary to syntactically enforce that the arguments be used as keywords? I.e., why not just document that the arguments should be used as keyword arguments, and leave it at that. If users insist on using them positionally, then their code will be less readable, and might break if you decide to change the order of the parameters, but we're all consenting adults. (And if you do believe that the parameters should all be passed as keywords, then I don't see any reason why you'd ever be motivated to change their order.)

IIRC, part of the motivation for this is to make it easier for super() to work correctly.

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