The admonition is against syntax that currently exists. On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 7:53 PM, Barry Warsaw <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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/mistersheik%40gmail.com >
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