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

[Fredrik Lundh]

Georg Brandl wrote:

> This is an issue in most Python documentation: you're not told
> if the described function is implemented in C, and if it is
> keyword arg-enabled. The arguments must be given names though,
> to be able to document them.

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.

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