question: parameters for create_polygon() method

[Michael Hudson]

Andrew Bennetts <andrew-pythonlist at puzzling.org> writes:

> Odd, though -- I thought that calls that put non-keyword args after keyword
> args were a syntax error, but using varargs syntax seems to workaround that
> -- e.g. try: 
>     canvas.create_polygon(fill="blue", (20, 20), (50, 150), (200, 50))
> 
> Or without Tk:
> 
>     >>> def f(*args, **kw): print args, kw
>     ... 
>     >>> f(x=1, 2)
>     SyntaxError: non-keyword arg after keyword arg
>     >>> f(x=1, *[2])
>     (2,) {'x': 1}
> 
> Interesting.

And even documented in all its tortuosity:

    http://docs.python.org/ref/calls.html

(I know, I wrote that bit...)

Cheers,
mwh

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