Lacking anything anyone else says... the use case for keyword only
arguments (where they actually make the code better rather than simply
being different) is rather limited.
On 4/14/2015 13:40, Eric V. Smith 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.
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