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On 06/10/2012 10:59 AM, Benjamin Peterson wrote:
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<pre wrap="">2012/6/5 Brett Cannon <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:brett@python.org"><brett@python.org></a>:
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<pre wrap="">* is_keyword_only : bool
  True if the parameter is keyword-only, else False.
* is_args : bool
  True if the parameter accepts variable number of arguments
  (``\*args``-like), else False.
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How about "vararg" as its named in AST.</pre>
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Please read the rest of the thread; this has already been discussed.
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<pre wrap="">Can the "is_" be dropped? It's quite ugly.</pre>
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I suppose that's in the eye of the beholder:<br>
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   if parameter.is_kwargs:<br>
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reads quite naturally to me.<br>
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<pre wrap="">Even better, since these are all mutually exclusive,
they could be cascaded into a single "type" attribute.
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Can you make a more concrete suggestion? "type" strikes me as a
poor choice of name, as it makes one think immediately of type(),
which is another, uh, variety of "type".<br>
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<i>/arry</i><br>
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