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Tue May 2 16:44:00 CEST 2006 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-May/064786.html

On 5/2/06, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> 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)

And even with Terry's use case quoted I can't make out what you meant
that to do.

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