Requiring arguments to be passed as keyword arguments

[Michael Haggerty]

The goal isn't to multiply the number of possible kludges, but rather
to make this possible in a convenient, obvious, maintainable way.

Duncan Booth <duncan at rcp.co.uk> wrote ...
>
> This is a kludge, but you can avoid accidental positional arguments if you
> stick in a tuple argument:
> >>> def f(x, (donotuse,)=(None,), variation=57):

By the way, didn't I hear that tuples-in-parameter-lists are going to
be removed from Python?

Michael

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