[Python-Dev] Keyword-only parameters

[Joe Jevnik]

I personally find that keyword only arguments make for nicer APIS. It also
makes subclassing easier because you are free to add new positional
arguments later. Especially for boolean arguments, I think keyword only is
a great API choice.

On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 2:06 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.
>
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> Steve
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