On 5/7/06, BJörn Lindqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I do know enough about Python to know that the make_person function is > a really bad example.
Totally agreed. I've been ignoring most of that discussion because it seemed really irrelevant. > would be nice to instead see some real examples of the usefulness of > the required keyword-only arguments. The most obvious one to me is the optparse module, where add_option takes all kinds of different keyword arguments, and there's really no intention of these ever being specified as positional arguments: http://docs.python.org/lib/module-optparse.html STeVe -- Grammar am for people who can't think for myself. --- Bucky Katt, Get Fuzzy _______________________________________________ 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