[Python-Dev] Positional-only Arguments (original) (raw)

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Tue May 2 21:46:56 CEST 2006

"Benji York" <benji at zope.com> wrote in message news:4457983C.5080109 at zope.com...

I've not followed the PEP 3102 (keyword-only arguments) discussion closely enough to know if this has been mentioned, but we were discussing a need at work today for the ability to enforce position-only arguments.

You could discourage name use by not documenting the actual, internal name of the parameters. Something like

def weather_guess(temp, pres): '''Guess weather from temperature in degrees Kelvin and pressure in millibars passed by position in that order.'''

Terry Jan Reedy

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