[Python-Dev] Positional-only Arguments

[Terry Reedy]

"Benji York" <benji at zope.com> wrote in message 
news:4457983C.5080109 at zope.com...
> I've not followed the PEP 3102 (keyword-only arguments) discussion
> closely enough to know if this has been mentioned, but we were
> discussing a need at work today for the ability to enforce position-only
> arguments.

You could discourage name use by not documenting the actual, internal name 
of the parameters.  Something like

def weather_guess(temp, pres):
   '''Guess weather from temperature in degrees Kelvin and pressure
      in millibars passed by position in that order.'''

Terry Jan Reedy