The slash "/" as used in the documentation

[Christian Gollwitzer]

Am 09.02.19 um 14:40 schrieb Stefan Ram:
> Piet van Oostrum <piet-l at vanoostrum.org> writes:
>> ram at zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) writes:
>>> The slash »/« as used in the documentation
>>> f( x, /, y )
>> What are you talking about? What documentation? It seems to
>> me you are talking about a completely different programming
>> language, not python.
> 
> |>>> __import__( 'sys' ).version
> |'3.7.0 ~~~'
> |>>> help( __import__( 'math' ).sin )
> |Help on built-in function sin in module math:
> |
> |sin(x, /)
> |    Return the sine of x (measured in radians).
> 
>    ~~~ = a part of the transcript that was omitted by me

Is this a new thing in 3.7? Because here I get:

Apfelkiste:Tcl2018 chris$ python3
Python 3.6.1 |Anaconda 4.4.0 (x86_64)| (default, May 11 2017, 13:04:09)
[GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 6.0 (clang-600.0.57)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
 >>> __import__( 'sys' ).version
'3.6.1 |Anaconda 4.4.0 (x86_64)| (default, May 11 2017, 13:04:09) \n[GCC 
4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 6.0 (clang-600.0.57)]'
 >>> help( __import__( 'math' ).sin )


Help on built-in function sin in module math:

sin(...)
     sin(x)

     Return the sine of x (measured in radians).


The help is actually not written out to the terminal but, displayed in 
the pager (less), and the first sin(...) is typeset in boldface.

	Christian