I've not followed the PEP 3102 (keyword-only arguments) discussion closely enough to know if this has been mentioned, but we were discussing a need at work today for the ability to enforce position-only arguments.
The specific instance was an argument that was intended to be used as a positional argument which a group had began using as a keyword argument instead. There was no way for the users to know it was intended for positional use only. And it makes refactoring the signature difficult. Of course you could use *args from the get-go, but ugly signatures as default isn't nice. Is there any reason to pursue the idea, or this mostly a misguided desire for symmetry? -- Benji York _______________________________________________ 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
