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Sun Apr 30 03:50:10 CEST 2006 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-April/064599.html

On 4/29/06, Talin <talin at acm.org> wrote:
> PEP: 3102
> Title: Keyword-Only Arguments
> Version: $Revision$
> Last-Modified: $Date$
> Author: Talin <talin at acm.org>
> Status: Draft
> Type: Standards
> Content-Type: text/plain
> Created: 22-Apr-2006
> Python-Version: 3.0
> Post-History:
>
>
> Abstract
>
>      This PEP proposes a change to the way that function arguments are
>      assigned to named parameter slots.  In particular, it enables the
>      declaration of "keyword-only" arguments: arguments that can only
>      be supplied by keyword and which will never be automatically
>      filled in by a positional argument.

+1.  And I suggest this be re-targeted for Python 2.6.  Now all we
need is someone to implement this. ;-)

By the way, I thought the "Function Calling Behavior" section was
particularly clear.  Thanks for that!

STeVe
--
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[Python-Dev] PEP 3102: Keyword-only arguments