Re: [Python-Dev] TypeError: f() missing 1 required positional argument: 'x'

On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 9:56 PM, Mark Dickinson dickinsm@gmail.com wrote:

I submit that the word 'positional' in the TypeError message exacerbates this confusion, and that little would be lost by simply dropping it from the exception message.

+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).

Cheers, Nick.