The standard library

[Fredrik Lundh]

Greg Ewing wrote:
>
> > And a lot of C functions that could (and should) accept keyword arguments
> > don't.  Even when the docs suggest they do, they don't.  For example, you
> > should be able to write 'foo bar baz'.split(maxsplit=1)
>
> As long as there's a difference, there should be a documentation
> convention to distinguish between argument names which are
> keywords and those which aren't.

the usual convention is that unless the documentation explicitly
tells you that something is a keyword argument, it isn't.

makes sense to me.

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