[Python-Dev] Keyword-only parameters (original) (raw)

Steven D'Aprano steve at pearwood.info
Tue Apr 14 20:06:18 CEST 2015


On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 01:40:40PM -0400, Eric V. Smith wrote:

But, I don't see a lot of keyword-only parameters being added to stdlib code. Is there some position we've taken on this? Barring someone saying "stdlib APIs shouldn't contain keyword-only params", I'm inclined to make numericowner keyword-only.

I expect that's because keyword-only parameters are quite recent (3.x only) and most of the stdlib is quite old.

Keyword-only feels right for this to me too.

-- Steve



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