[Python-Dev] Negative times behaviour in itertools.repeat for Python maintenance releases (2.7, 3.3 and maybe 3.4) (original) (raw)

Georg Brandl g.brandl at gmx.net
Mon Jan 27 17:40:56 CET 2014

Am 27.01.2014 13:12, schrieb Antoine Pitrou:

On Mon, 27 Jan 2014 04:01:02 -0800 Larry Hastings <larry at hastings.org> wrote:

On 01/27/2014 01:39 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > On Sun, 26 Jan 2014 21:01:08 -0800 > Larry Hastings <larry at hastings.org> wrote: >> On 01/26/2014 08:40 PM, Alexander Belopolsky wrote: >>> On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 11:26 PM, Vajrasky Kok >>> <sky.kok at speaklikeaking.com <mailto:sky.kok at speaklikeaking.com>> wrote: >>> >>> In case we are taking "not backporting anything at all" road, what is >>> the best fix for the document? >>> >>> >>> I would say no fix is needed for this doc because the signature >>> suggests (correctly) that passing times by keyword is not supported. >> Where does it do that? > In the "[,times]" spelling, which is the spelling customarily used for > positional-only arguments. That's not my experience. But it's mine :-) (try "help(str)" or "help(list)")

It's also the convention we've been using for the docs.

Georg

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