[Python-Dev] Keyword-only parameters

[Steven D'Aprano]

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 numeric_owner 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