On Feb 09, 2015, at 07:46 PM, Neil Girdhar wrote: >Also, regarding calling argument order, not any order is allowed. Regular >arguments must precede other kinds of arguments. Keyword arguments must >precede **-args. *-args must precede **-args. However, I agree with >Antoine that PEP 8 should be updated to suggest that *-args should precede >any keyword arguments. It is currently allowed to write f(x=2, *args), >which is equivalent to f(*args, x=2).
But if we have to add a PEP 8 admonition against some syntax that's being newly added, why is this an improvement? I had some more snarky/funny comments to make, but I'll just say -1. The Rationale in the PEP doesn't sell me on it being an improvement to Python. Cheers, -Barry _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com