On 21.03.15 13:03, Victor Stinner wrote:
The \ is useful, it indicates that you cannot use keywords.

Wouldn't it confuse users?

If you want to drop \, modify the function to accept keywords.

Yes, this is a solution. But parsing keyword arguments is slower than parsing positional arguments. And I'm working on patches that optimizes parsing code generated by Argument Clinic. First my patches will handle only positional parameters, with keywords it is harder.

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