[Python-Dev] PEP 362 Third Revision (original) (raw)

Ethan Furman ethan at stoneleaf.us
Fri Jun 15 00:47:45 CEST 2012


Nick Coghlan wrote:

I like the idea of a kind attribute, I don't like the current names for the possible values.

At the very least, "positional only" needs to be supported to handle nameless parameters in C functions (or those that unpack *args internally) The level of abbreviation used also seems unnecessary and internally inconsistent. My proposal: POSITIONAL- positional only NAMEDPOSITIONAL - normal parameter VARPOSITIONAL - *args KEYWORD - keyword only VARKEYWORDS - **kwds

I could live with this, too -- as long as we lose the 'S' on 'VAR_KEYWORDS'. :)

Ethan



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