Eric Snow <ericsnowcurren...@gmail.com> added the comment: >> 4) she got annoyed that two completely different notations where used >> for two very close concepts > > This is a good point, and we are trying to move to the arg=default > notation. Unfortunately there are still places that use the old > notation. C functions that have optional arguments but don't accept > keyword arguments are a bit unusual, and IIUC in most of the cases > that's an implementation detail that could be removed.
So would it be worth the effort to identify each such place in the built-ins/stdlib and eventually change them all? I've seen support for doing so in other tracker issues and think it's a good idea personally. ---------- nosy: +eric.snow _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue13386> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
