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

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Tue May 2 21:48:25 CEST 2006

I've used a double leading underscore on the name. Works great for methods!

On 5/2/06, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:

"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 weatherguess(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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