[Python-ideas] Positional only arguments
Greg Ewing
greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Mon May 21 09:45:31 CEST 2007
Steven Bethard wrote:
> On 5/21/07, Adam Olsen <rhamph at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > All positional
> > arguments get sucked up in *args so key *must* be keyword-only.
>
> This may not be so obvious anymore now that we have extended iterable
> unpacking from `PEP 3132`_. Given an iterable unpacking like::
>
> a, b, *c, d = iterable
I'm not in favour of allowing a * which isn't at the end
here, for various reasons, one of which is that it weakens
the analogy with call signatures.
--
Greg
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