[SciPy-dev] stats confusion
Pauli Virtanen
pav at iki.fi
Wed Jun 17 09:43:09 EDT 2009
Wed, 17 Jun 2009 09:37:10 -0400, josef.pktd kirjoitti:
[clip]
> Positional arguments cannot be called as keyword arguments, that is
> standard python.
> (on the other hand keyword arguments can be called also as positional
> arguments.
Positional arguments can usually be called as keyword arguments in
standard Python.
def foo(a):
print a
foo(a=5)
> the signature and help has standard notation:
>
> eg. signature: np.maximum(x1, x2[, out])
>
>>>> np.maximum(x1=[5], x2=[6])
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> TypeError: 'x2' is an invalid keyword to maximum
The only exception are functions provided by C extension modules, and
functions that use *args.
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Pauli Virtanen
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