[Python-3000] PEP 3102

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Fri Feb 15 03:04:55 CET 2008


Guido van Rossum wrote:
> Now can you come up with a syntax for positional-only
> arguments? So far everybody has failed at that, and there are some use
> cases where it's useful too.

def foo(*(a, b,c)):
   ...

i.e. catch them in a * arg which is unpacked in-place.

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