On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 3:12 PM, Benjamin Peterson <benja...@python.org> wrote:
> As you noted in your next message, keyword-only arguments need to be
> distinguished from these "positional" arguments somehow. Maybe it
> helps to think of "positional" to mean "the only formals you can pass
> to with position" (excepting variadic ones).
And excepting optional ones, too, right? E.g., the c in
def foo(a, b, c=1, *args, d):
pass
can be passed to by position, but isn't "positional".
> I'm certainly open to suggestions.
Yes, I don't have a good alternative suggestion. If we could find a
suitable word and bless it in the documentation, it might make it
easier to make clear and accurate statements about Python's function
calling.
Mark
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