On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> +1 for using the unqualified "argument" in these error messages to
> mean "positional or keyword argument" (inspect.Parameter spells it out
> as POSITIONAL_OR_KEYWORD, but the full phrase is far too verbose for
> an error message).
Ah yes; I see that 'positional or keyword' is a more accurate term
(but agree it's unwieldy for an error message). I also see that I was
naive to think that the 'fix' is as simple as dropping the word
'positional':
>>> def f(a, *, b):
... pass
...
>>> f()
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: f() missing 1 required positional argument: 'a'
If the word 'positional' were dropped here, it would give the
incorrect impression that f only requires one argument.
Perhaps this simply isn't worth worrying about, especially since the
current error messages are all but certain to make it into the 3.3
release.
Mark
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