[Python-Dev] AC Derby and accepting None for optional positional arguments (original) (raw)
Georg Brandl g.brandl at gmx.net
Thu Jan 16 13:15:03 CET 2014
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Am 16.01.2014 12:39, schrieb Antoine Pitrou:
On Thu, 16 Jan 2014 04:42:43 -0500 Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:
On 1/16/2014 3:31 AM, Serhiy Storchaka wrote: > 16.01.14 08:05, Guido van Rossum написав(ла): >> In this specific case it's clear to me that the special-casing of >> negative count is intentional -- presumably it emulates sequence >> repetition, where e.g. 'a'*-1 == ''. > > In this specific case it's contrary to sequence repetition. Because > repeat('a', -1) repeats 'a' forever.
'Forever' only when the keyword is used and the value is -1. In 3.4b2 >>> itertools.repeat('a', -1) repeat('a', 0) >>> itertools.repeat('a', times=-1) repeat('a') >>> itertools.repeat('a', times=-2) repeat('a', -2) Looks like a horrible bug to me. Passing an argument by position should mean the same as passing it by keyword!
Indeed, that should be fixed regardless of AC.
Georg
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