Why should input(prompt="hello:") fail?

[Michael Hudson]

wongwung at hotmail.com (zhi) writes:

> Really confused, when I use keyword style argument as following:

Often builtin functions don't take keyword arguments.  There's been a
gentle move towards supporting them over the years, but there are
many, many places that haven't been reached.

Cheers,
mwh

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