[Python-Dev] PEP 362 Third Revision

Benjamin Peterson benjamin at python.org
Fri Jun 15 00:37:44 CEST 2012


2012/6/14 Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com>:
> I like the idea of a kind attribute, I don't like the current names for the
> possible values.
>
> At the very least, "positional only" needs to be supported to handle
> nameless parameters in C functions (or those that unpack *args internally)
>
> The level of abbreviation used also seems unnecessary and internally
> inconsistent.
>
> My proposal:
> POSITIONAL- positional only
> NAMED_POSITIONAL - normal parameter

Probably POSITIONAL should be the normal one, and there should be
ONLY_POSITIONAL for the weirdos.


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Regards,
Benjamin


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