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Fri Jul 9 19:34:05 CEST 2010 · http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2010-July/101643.html

Am 09.07.2010 18:36, schrieb Eric Smith:
> On 7/9/10 10:40 AM, Mark Dickinson wrote:
>> While looking at a parser module issue
>> (http://bugs.python.org/issue9154) I noticed that Python's grammar
>> doesn't permit trailing commas after keyword-only args.  That is,
>>
>>      def f(a, b,):  pass
>>
>> is valid syntax, while
>>
>>      def f(*, a, b,): pass
>>
>> is not.  I was just curious whether the latter was deliberate or an
>> oversight.  And if an oversight, is it worth fixing after the
>> moratorium expires?  (See also http://bugs.python.org/issue2009.)
> 
> I use trailing commas all the time in argument lists. I don't use 
> keyword-only args much, but I will when I switch to 3.x. I'd like to see 
> this fixed. I'd argue it's a bug fix, but that's me.

+1

Georg

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trailing commas in argument lists.