[Python-ideas] reduce(func, seq, initial=0)

[Nick Coghlan]

On 10 Oct 2014 21:07, "Florian Bruhin" <me at the-compiler.org> wrote:
>
> FWIW, I'd also really like to see keyword arguments for these
> builtins. I always have to keep myself from doing things like
>
>     "foo bar    baz".split(count=1)
>
> But as said, I suspect there is *some* reason this is not possible.

The technical reason is that many older CPython functions written in C use
PyArg_ParseTuple, which only supports positional arguments.

When there's a concrete readability gain from adding keyword argument
support to a particular function, patches will often be accepted.

Switching to argument clinic also offers improved introspection support, so
that can be a good way to pursue the enhancement.

Regards,
Nick.


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