[Python-Dev] Positional-only parameters in Python (original) (raw)

Mario Corchero mariocj89 at gmail.com
Sat Jan 20 04:25:36 EST 2018

OK, if no one has anything against, Pablo and I can start a PEP just for the ‘/‘ simple syntax (without the argument group part).

On Sat, 20 Jan 2018 at 07:17, Larry Hastings <larry at hastings.org> wrote:

On 01/19/2018 08:47 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote: - proposing the full PEP 547, including the "argument groups" feature (which is a bigger change, but allows the expression of signatures like "range([start,] stop, [step,] /)") I hope we don't go down that route. I added support for "argument groups" to Argument Clinic in an attempt to support legacy functions with crazy argument signatures that count their arguments. (For example, curses.window.overlay() takes either one or seven arguments exactly--not two!, and not six!.) I have deeply mixed feelings about the result, and I would hate to see support for it added to the language. If I had my way I'd rewrite or replace those functions and have only modern Pythonic signatures in the standard library. /arry -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/attachments/20180120/4298f2af/attachment.html>

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