At least asyncio uses keyword-only intensively. On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 1:40 PM, Eric V. Smith <e...@trueblade.com> wrote: > I'm working on adding a numeric_owner parameter to some tarfile methods > (http://bugs.python.org/issue23193), > > In a review, Berker suggested making the parameter keyword-only. I agree > that you'd likely never want to pass just "True", but that > "numeric_owner=True" would be a better usage. > > But, I don't see a lot of keyword-only parameters being added to stdlib > code. Is there some position we've taken on this? Barring someone saying > "stdlib APIs shouldn't contain keyword-only params", I'm inclined to > make numeric_owner keyword-only. > > Is there anything stopping me from making it keyword-only? > > Thanks. > Eric. > _______________________________________________ > 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/andrew.svetlov%40gmail.com
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