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Mon Oct 6 20:38:28 EDT 2003 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2003-October/038558.html

Gareth McCaughan <gmccaughan at synaptics-uk.com>:

> >>>> def any(*iterables, pred=bool):
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------
> >    File "<stdin>", line 1
> >      def any(*iterables, pred=bool):
> >                             ^
> > SyntaxError: invalid syntax
> 
> Aieee! I was so sure you could do that, I didn't bother
> checking

I was just thinking the other day that you *should* be
able to say that. Any keyword arguments after a * arg
would have to be specified by keyword in the call.

So many PEP ideas, so little time...

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