Terry Reedy wrote: > You could discourage name use by not documenting the actual, internal name > of the parameters.
The issue we had was that the name wasn't documented at all, the users simply looked at the code and began using the keyword name. This may well be an area where "we're all adults here" wins. OTOH there is a /slight/ possibility that it'd be better to disallow using an argument as a keyword unless explicitly flagged as such. Similar to how the C API works now. This has the same advantages of the keyword-only PEP (3102): tools will know which arguments are positional and which are keyword. Doing so would recast PEP 3102 from "how to get a keyword-only argument" into "how to get a keyword (non-positional) argument". A downside would be the need to specify when an argument can be positional *or* keyword. -- 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
