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[Neil Girdhar]

Just an FYI:
http://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/2v8g26/python_350_alpha_1_has_been_released/

448 was mentioned here (by Python lay people — not developers).

On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 7:56 PM, Neil Girdhar <mistersheik at gmail.com> wrote:

> The admonition is against syntax that currently exists.
>
> On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 7:53 PM, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:
>
>> On Feb 09, 2015, at 07:46 PM, Neil Girdhar wrote:
>>
>> >Also, regarding calling argument order, not any order is allowed.
>> Regular
>> >arguments must precede other kinds of arguments.  Keyword arguments must
>> >precede **-args.  *-args must precede **-args.   However, I agree with
>> >Antoine that PEP 8 should be updated to suggest that *-args should
>> precede
>> >any keyword arguments.  It is currently allowed to write f(x=2, *args),
>> >which is equivalent to f(*args, x=2).
>>
>> But if we have to add a PEP 8 admonition against some syntax that's being
>> newly added, why is this an improvement?
>>
>> I had some more snarky/funny comments to make, but I'll just say -1.  The
>> Rationale in the PEP doesn't sell me on it being an improvement to Python.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> -Barry
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