Edward Loper wrote: > Martin v. Löwis wrote: >> One reason I see is to have keyword-only functions, i.e. with no >> positional arguments at all: >> >> def make_person(*, name, age, phone, location): >> pass > > But is it necessary to syntactically *enforce* that the arguments be > used as keywords?
This really challenges the whole point of the PEP: keyword-only arguments (at least, it challenges the title of the PEP, although probably not the specified rationale). > I.e., why not just document that the arguments should > be used as keyword arguments, and leave it at that. Because they wouldn't be keyword-only arguments, then. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
