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Neil Girdhar mistersheik at gmail.com
Tue Feb 10 01:56:57 CET 2015

The admonition is against syntax that currently exists.

On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 7:53 PM, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:

On Feb 09, 2015, at 07:46 PM, Neil Girdhar wrote:

>Also, regarding calling argument order, not any order is allowed. Regular >arguments must precede other kinds of arguments. Keyword arguments must >precede **-args. *-args must precede **-args. However, I agree with >Antoine that PEP 8 should be updated to suggest that *-args should precede >any keyword arguments. It is currently allowed to write f(x=2, *args), >which is equivalent to f(*args, x=2). But if we have to add a PEP 8 admonition against some syntax that's being newly added, why is this an improvement? I had some more snarky/funny comments to make, but I'll just say -1. The Rationale in the PEP doesn't sell me on it being an improvement to Python. Cheers, -Barry

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