[issue9232] Allow trailing comma in any function argument list.
Martin Panter
report at bugs.python.org
Tue Mar 24 01:50:48 CET 2015
Martin Panter added the comment:
See also Issue 22942 about existing problems with the language documentation.
I would like to see trailing commas supported consistently, especially in function calls. (I think the patch here only does function definitions?) I like to use them when writing arguments on multiple lines, and it is surprising that adding packed *positional arguments can trigger a syntax error.
Maybe this is stretching the scope a bit too far, but it would also be nice to allow more keyword arguments after the **keyword unpacking:
print(1, 2, end=".\n", *(3, 4)) # Supported, but confusing
print(1, 2, *(3, 4), end=".\n") # Better; also suported
print(1, 2, **dict(sep="-"), end=".\n") # Unsupported, but would be nice
print(end=".\n", 1, 2) # Unsupported, for good reason
Maybe some of this is covered by Issue 2292 (generalizing * unpacking), but I haven’t been following that, so I’m not sure.
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