[Python-Dev] PEP 457: Syntax For Positional-Only Parameters (original) (raw)

Larry Hastings larry at hastings.org
Wed Oct 9 16:57:24 CEST 2013

On 10/09/2013 04:24 PM, Benjamin Peterson wrote:

My proposed syntax is a little complex--but complex is better than complicated and inconsistent and undocumented and inconvenient, which is what we have now. Certainly the argument conventions of these functions are not undocumented, so wonder what is. Also, inconvenient for what? What inconsistency problem does this PEP solve?

Whether or not a particular function accepts keyword arguments is undocumented. I have in the past been inconvenienced by this not being clear. The documentation uses two approaches for documenting option groups, effectively at random, which is inconsistent.

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