2011/6/5 Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com>: > On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 11:45 AM, Benjamin Peterson <benja...@python.org> > wrote: >> Currently, >> >> def f(*, kw, **kwargs): pass >> >> is valid syntax, but >> >> def f(*args, *, kw): pass >> >> is not. >> >> I don't see any mention of it in the PEP but perhaps there is a good >> reason this isn't allowed. It seems to be perfectly well-defined to >> me. > > Really? There's two single-stars there. One says "accept arbitrary > positional arguments and place them in a tuple named args", the second > says "don't accept any more positional args". You can't have it both > ways, so the compiler complains.
Thank you. More proof I shouldn't write emails after 22:00 local time. > > The following works fine to mix keyword-only arguments with arbitrary > positional arguments, so I don't see a problem: > > def f(*args, kw): pass Move along, nothing to see here... -- Regards, Benjamin _______________________________________________ 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
