On 28 October 2016 at 22:25, Sven R. Kunze <srku...@mail.de> wrote: > So, instead providing this kind of syntax for dicts only, why not also > providing them for kwargs? Basically marking arguments as keyword arguments: > > > my_func(:param1, :param2) > > > ":param" equals "param=param" again but as already said that might just be > placeholder syntax. > > > What do you think?
-1. I don't like the use of the colon here. I don't think there's any need to avoid the repetition in arg_name=arg_name, it's a common convention, easy to read and understand, and even to write with a bit of editor support. Explicit is better than implicit implies here, IMO. Paul _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
