Nick Coghlan wrote:
> Guido van Rossum wrote:
>> Here's a related but more complicated wish: define a function in such
>> a way that certain parameters *must* be passed as keywords, *without*
>> using *args or **kwds. This may require a new syntactic crutch.
>
> A single '*' could indicate that no additional positional arguments were
> permitted.
>
> def f(*, paramA, paramB=10):
> print paramA, paramB
>
> Here paramA and paramB can only be passed as keywords, and paramA *has* to be
> passed as it has no default.
>
> Utterly magical to anyone not already familiar with the use of *args, though.
A different idea from another part of the thread would be to allow a parameter
list rather than an identifier after **:
def f(**(paramA, paramB=10)):
print paramA, paramB
Cheers,
Nick.
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