What value should be passed to make a function use the default argument value?

[Fredrik Lundh]

Gabriel Genellina wrote:

>> > the general rule is that if the documentation doesn't explicitly say
>> > that something is a keyword argument, it isn't, and shouldn't be 
>> > treated as such.
>>
>> The first module I looked in to check this, it wasn't true. In the Queue
>> Module is isn't explicitly written that maxsize is a keyword argument yet
>> Queue.Queue(maxsize=9) works just fine.
> 
> This is true for most python code, unless the arguments are get as *args.

you guys need to look up the words "should" and "not" in a dictionary.

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