Fun with function argument counts

Ethan Furman ethan at stoneleaf.us
Tue Feb 11 20:15:36 EST 2014


On 02/11/2014 05:05 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 11:34 AM, Travis Griggs wrote:
>
>> 6) Who writes a function with 19 mandatory arguments anyway????
>> subprocess._execute_child() and distutils.cygwincompiler._execute_child()
>
> Hmm. Those are internal functions (leading underscore). Might be
> fairer to remove those from consideration.

Not at all.  Even private routines get used by somebody!  ;)

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~Ethan~



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