[Python-Dev] cpython: Remove the old style [...] to denote optional args and show the defaults. (original) (raw)

Brian Curtin brian.curtin at gmail.com
Tue Nov 8 21:55:49 CET 2011

On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 14:47, Georg Brandl <g.brandl at gmx.net> wrote:

Am 08.11.2011 21:30, schrieb brian.curtin:

http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/60ae7979fec8 changeset:   73463:60ae7979fec8 user:        Brian Curtin <brian at python.org> date:        Tue Nov 08 14:30:02 2011 -0600 summary: Remove the old style [...] to denote optional args and show the defaults.

files: Doc/library/os.rst |  12 ++++++------ 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Doc/library/os.rst b/Doc/library/os.rst --- a/Doc/library/os.rst +++ b/Doc/library/os.rst @@ -872,7 +872,7 @@ .. versionadded:: 3.3 -.. function:: futimesat(dirfd, path[, (atime, mtime)]) +.. function:: futimesat(dirfd, path, (atime, mtime)=None) Like :func:utime but if path is relative, it is taken as relative to dirfd. If path is relative and dirfd is the special value :data:ATFDCWD, then path Hmm, while the [] are old style, they are still correct when the function doesn't support kwargs.  Please revert. (Also, the syntax (atime, mtime)=None would not be valid Python and at is best confusing.) Georg

Backed out. http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/2636df45b630

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