carry **arguments through different scopes/functions

[Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn]

Terry Reedy wrote:

> On 1/31/2016 7:19 AM, c.buhtz at posteo.jp wrote:
>> I am not sure what the problem is here, so I don't really know how I
>> should call the subject for that question. Please offer a better
>> subject.
>>
>> The code below is a extrem simplified example of the original one. But
>> it reproduce the problem very nice. Please focus on the variable
>> `return_code`.
>>
>> There is a `list()` of numbers without the number `7` in. The code
>> check if the number `7` is in and should tell that it is not in. But it
>> does tell me that `7 is in`. ;)
> 
> Python-list is not Stackoverflow.  It is a text mailing list, not a web
> page.  Here, the backticks are not markup; they are just distracting
> noise.  Don't do this!

IBTD.  I find it useful to mark up source code in plain text prose even if 
it is not rendered differently (you cannot know that; there are various user 
agents, and there could be one that does).  I would have used typographical 
quotation marks (“…”) instead, but I think backticks are a good alternative 
in US-ASCII, better than straight quotation marks or apostrophes at least 
since those delimit strings in Python which can lead to ambiguities.  (That 
is probably also why not only Stack Overflow, but *Markdown* uses them this 
way as Stack Overflow just uses a Markdown flavour: 
<http://stackoverflow.com/help/formatting>)
 
>>      #!/usr/bin/env python3
>>      import sys
>>
>>      def walkOn_ids(ids, handlerFunction, **handlerArgs):
>>          for one_id in ids:
>>              handlerFunction(one_id=one_id, **handlerArgs)
>>              print('after handler-call for id {}\t{}'
>>                    .format(one_id, handlerArgs))
> 
> Ditto.  Here, the initial 4 space indents are not markup.  They just
> makes it impossible to cut, paste, and run your code without extra work.

That much is true, because *in Python* indentation means program structure; 
so the Python program above is syntactically invalid and should not have 
been posted this way.

However, with a good editor the "extra work" is limited to one application 
of Shift+Tab, and the extra indentation does not hinder the understanding of 
the posted source code as much as you imply.

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