[Python-Dev] Positional-only parameters in Python

[Larry Hastings]

On 01/21/2018 05:59 AM, Mario Corchero wrote:
> Credit for making left option groups higher precedence goes to
> Nick Coghlan. (Conversation in person at PyCon US 2013.)

Actually Argument Clinic has always given left option groups higher 
precedence.  This theoretically allows Argument Clinic to elegantly 
support the range builtin as "range([start,] stop, [step])", although 
nobody has bothered to actually convert range() to Clinic. (Which is 
reasonable--I don't think there's any reason to bother.)

Anyway, this acknowledgement is the only mention of "option groups" in 
the document.  Perhaps this was in reference to the now-abandoned idea 
of adding "option groups" to the language?  If so, this acknowledgement 
should probably be removed too.


//arry/
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