On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 2:49 AM Ian Kelly <ian.g.ke...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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.
Do you ACTUALLY want to call math.sin(x=1.234) or is it purely for the sake of consistency? Aside from questions about the help format, what is actually lost by the inability to pass those arguments by name? ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
