[Python-Dev] Positional-only Arguments

Tue May 2 21:46:56 CEST 2006

"Benji York" <benji at zope.com> wrote in message 
news:4457983C.5080109 at zope.com...
> I've not followed the PEP 3102 (keyword-only arguments) discussion
> closely enough to know if this has been mentioned, but we were
> discussing a need at work today for the ability to enforce position-only
> arguments.

You could discourage name use by not documenting the actual, internal name 
of the parameters. Something like
def weather_guess(temp, pres):
 '''Guess weather from temperature in degrees Kelvin and pressure
 in millibars passed by position in that order.'''
Terry Jan Reedy