On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 3:51 PM, Nick Coghlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Georg Brandl wrote: >> >> Georg Brandl schrieb: >>> >>> Someone just wrote to the docs mailing list and reported that the >>> itertools >>> documentation for Py3k contains this recipe: >>> >>> def grouper(n, iterable, fillvalue=None): >>> args = [iter(iterable)] * n >>> return zip_longest(*args, fillvalue=fillvalue) >>> >>> It is currently a syntax error in 3k. There's also a test for it in >>> test_keywordonlyarg.py, however, I can currently see no reason why >>> it should be disallowed. >> >> No opinions at all? > > I think I was busy first time it went by :) > > With keyword-only parameters allowed now, I think it makes sense to be able > to supply the keywords arguments after the variable length argument as well.
Agreed. I doubt that this will be a simple enough change to allow it in 3.0 though. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
