[Python-Dev] Keyword-only parameters

[Zachary Ware]

On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 1:06 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:
> 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.

+1

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Zach