Terry Reedy wrote:
> my way to call your example (given the data in separate variables):
> make_person(name, age, phone, location)
> your way:
> make_person(name=name, age=age, phone=phone, location = location)
For situations like that, I've sometimes thought
it would be useful to be able to say something like
make_person(=name, =age, =phone, =location)
> It is a feature of Python that arguments can usually be matched to
> parameters either by position or name, as the *caller* chooses.
Except that the caller doesn't always get that option
even now, if the callee has chosen to use *args or **kwds.
So I wouldn't consider that a very strong argument.
> And they need not; it is right there in front of them. As for writers,
> modern IDEs should try to list the parameter signature upon typing 'func('.
Which is extremely difficult for an IDE to do without
static type information.
--
Greg
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