Function Parameters

[Oscar Benjamin]

On 27 December 2012 20:47, Joseph L. Casale <jcasale at activenetwerx.com> wrote:
>> Don't use kwargs for this.  List out the arguments in the function
>> spec and give the optional ones reasonable defaults.
>
>> I only use kwargs myself when the set of possible arguments is dynamic
>> or unknown.
>
> Gotch ya, but when the inputs to some keywords are similar, if the function is called
> with two of three (which is valid) and the arg name isn't used, the assignment is order
> dependent and arbitrary in a sense and I can not distinguish.
>
> It would be nice if you could force the keyword to be mandatory to forgo the assumption
> in assignment like kwargs provides with gets. I suppose all the time wasted here is in vain
> as the caller could blunder elsewhere...

In Python 3 you can do this using keyword-only arguments like so (note
the asterisk that separates keyword arguments from positional
arguments):

def my_func(self, *, some_key=MISSING, another_key=MISSING):


Oscar