Oliver Smith added the comment:

The term "optional arguments" is a poorly formed adjectival suffix of "option". 
What it's trying to say is "these are kwargs" rather than "these arguments are 
not compulsory".

I ran into this issue with 3.4 and was looking to file a simple change request:

In early DOS/Linux days we called these "switches". I suggest we simply change 
the default wording from "optional arguments" to "switches".

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Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file36528/parrot.py

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