[Python-ideas] Boolean parameters guidelines

[Sven R. Kunze]

On 11.05.2016 23:57, Ethan Furman wrote:
> On 05/11/2016 02:40 PM, Zachary Ware wrote:
>> On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 3:36 PM, Ian Kelly wrote:
>>> You just weren't explicit enough:
>>>
>>>     --> sleep(timedelta(100).total_seconds())
>>>
>>> This is drifting pretty far from the topic at hand, though.
>
> There was a topic at hand?
>
> Oh, yeah, keyword arguments!
>
> Actually, it's very apropos:  each of those examples would have been 
> either obviously correct or obviously wrong if the parameter names had 
> been used.

Indeed.

It's something that's already baked in our internal style guidelines. 
Mostly because we are too lazy to read the docs or jump to definition.


Sven

PS: It's interesting to see how easy it is to get off-topic as soon as 
an example is present.