On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 01:41:42PM -0400, Eric V. Smith wrote:
> On 4/16/2020 1:30 PM, Rhodri James wrote:
> >I beg to differ. I do find "def foo(a, *, b)" gets in the way of
> >readability.
>
> And what would you do if you wanted to call:
>
> self.do_something(positional, keyword=keyword, keyword1=somethingelse,
> keyword2=keyword2)
Sorry, am I missing something? Why wouldn't you just call it precisely
as you said?
self.do_something(positional, keyword=keyword, keyword1=somethingelse,
keyword2=keyword2)
is syntax that goes back to Python 1.x. You don't need the `*` in the
function definition for it to work.
--
Steven
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