On Sat, Feb 9, 2019 at 1:19 PM Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote: > > This is the result of Python being a project of mostly unpaid volunteers. > > See my response in this thread explaining how '/' appears in help output > and IDLE calltips. '/' only appears for CPython C-coded functions that > have been modified to use Argument Clinic. A.C. was added, I believe, > in 3.5. Simple builtins like len would have been the first to be > converted. The math module was converted for 3.7. There are some new > conversions for 3.8 and likely some will be left for future versions.
I'm sure there are good reasons for it like most things Python does, but I can't help but wonder if working on removing the positional limitation from CPython would be a better use of time. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
