Just an FYI: http://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/2v8g26/python_350_alpha_1_has_been_released/
448 was mentioned here (by Python lay people — not developers). On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 7:56 PM, Neil Girdhar <mistersh...@gmail.com> wrote: > The admonition is against syntax that currently exists. > > On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 7:53 PM, Barry Warsaw <ba...@python.org> wrote: > >> On Feb 09, 2015, at 07:46 PM, Neil Girdhar wrote: >> >> >Also, regarding calling argument order, not any order is allowed. >> Regular >> >arguments must precede other kinds of arguments. Keyword arguments must >> >precede **-args. *-args must precede **-args. However, I agree with >> >Antoine that PEP 8 should be updated to suggest that *-args should >> precede >> >any keyword arguments. It is currently allowed to write f(x=2, *args), >> >which is equivalent to f(*args, x=2). >> >> But if we have to add a PEP 8 admonition against some syntax that's being >> newly added, why is this an improvement? >> >> I had some more snarky/funny comments to make, but I'll just say -1. The >> Rationale in the PEP doesn't sell me on it being an improvement to Python. >> >> Cheers, >> -Barry >> _______________________________________________ >> Python-Dev mailing list >> Python-Dev@python.org >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev >> Unsubscribe: >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/mistersheik%40gmail.com >> > >
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